A695 crash in Gateshead on 12 September 2016 at 16:28 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus, a Volkswagen Passat and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the A695 in Gateshead at 16:28 on Monday 12 September 2016. The 34-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus and the 39-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Passat were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Sep 2016
- Monday, 16:28
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Focus and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.96648, longitude -1.77034, in the NE40 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ryton, Crookhill & Stella, Gateshead, NE40 3LS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016100144941
- Council area
- Gateshead
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 695
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 6315
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 7 June 2000.
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A695 in Gateshead, 7 June 2000
1 m awayRef 200010K211700
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A695 in Gateshead, 5 February 2000
1 m awayRef 200010K049300
Slight
DS DS3 crash on the A695 in Gateshead, 10 November 2022
2 m awayRef 2022101240826
Slight
Ford Ecosport crash on the A695 in Gateshead, 28 April 2018
3 m awayRef 2018100288130
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A695 in Gateshead, 27 September 2025
3 m awayRef 2025101647262
Slight
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the A695 in Gateshead, 15 April 2022
5 m awayRef 2022101166905
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- 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
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 2016100144941 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gateshead road accident statistics for 2016.