Unclassified road crash in Sunderland DH4 on 6 May 2016 at 14:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Renault Clio were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland at 14:30 on Friday 6 May 2016. The 21-year-old female driver of the Renault Clio 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
- 6 May 2016
- Friday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.84538, longitude -1.47565, in the DH4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Houghton-le-Spring.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016100065755
- 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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 October 2012.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 23 October 2012
4 m awayRef 2012100571612
Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 11 December 1979
35 m awayRef 197910H086779
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 13 December 1996
51 m awayRef 199610O033996
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 19 November 2008
63 m awayRef 2008100838708
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 11 March 2010
67 m awayRef 2010100180410
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 14 October 2002
67 m awayRef 2002100333102
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Clio)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 2016100065755 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 2016.