Unclassified road crash in Sunderland SR4 on 17 December 2015 at 11:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sunderland at 11:30 on Thursday 17 December 2015. A 3-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2015
- Thursday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.91317, longitude -1.41646, in the SR4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sunderland. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pallion & Ford, Sunderland, SR4 6PA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sunderland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015100788915
- Council area
- Sunderland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 December 2012.
Serious
Scania crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 18 December 2012
7 m awayRef 2012100719912
Serious
Scania crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 12 September 2000
15 m awayRef 200010N340600
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 28 September 1984
17 m awayRef 198410F223784
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 31 October 1997
19 m awayRef 199710M059297
Serious
Citroen C1 crash on the A1231 in Sunderland, 19 December 2020
26 m awayRef 2020101014233
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 6 December 2009
31 m awayRef 2009100845509
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 62 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 3, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2015100788915 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.