A182 crash in Sunderland on 20 November 2015 at 12:00 involving a Mitsubishi Mirage
Two cars and a Mitsubishi Mirage were involved in a crash on the A182 in Sunderland at 12:00 on Friday 20 November 2015. The 65-year-old female driver of the Mitsubishi Mirage and a 64-year-old male passenger in the Mitsubishi Mirage were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Nov 2015
- Friday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mitsubishi Mirage and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.85575, longitude -1.47679, in the DH4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newbottle. It is one of the crashes that make up the Houghton North, Sunderland, DH4 4FB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sunderland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015100734515
- Council area
- Sunderland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 182
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 September 2012.
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on the A182 in Sunderland, 4 September 2012
8 m awayRef 2012100492012
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in Sunderland, 7 April 2008
8 m awayRef 2008100558408
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Sunderland, 9 September 2001
8 m awayRef 200110O326801
Serious
Car crash on the A182 in Sunderland, 7 October 1981
8 m awayRef 198110H070581
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A182 in Sunderland, 13 October 2025
9 m awayRef 2025101653977
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A182 in Sunderland, 13 February 2022
11 m awayRef 2022101143879
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Mitsubishi Mirage
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,193 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mitsubishi Mirage)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mitsubishi Mirage)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2015100734515 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sunderland road accident statistics for 2015.