B1600 crash in Newcastle upon Tyne on 20 February 2017 at 22:00 involving a Volkswagen Sharan
A Volkswagen Sharan hit a pedestrian on the B1600 in Newcastle upon Tyne at 22:00 on Monday 20 February 2017. A 19-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Feb 2017
- Monday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Sharan
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.97683, longitude -1.5984, in the NE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newcastle upon Tyne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 1XH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017100157635
- Council area
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1600
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 February 2017.
Slight
Audi A5 crash on the B1600 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 10 February 2017
5 m awayRef 2017100186724
Serious
E-scooter crash on the B1600 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 17 May 2025
10 m awayRef 2025101591278
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1600 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 23 March 1982
15 m awayRef 198210B104582
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the B1600 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 12 December 1992
15 m awayRef 199210B118892
Slight
Car crash on the B1600 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 25 January 1989
16 m awayRef 198910B201389
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the B1600 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 2 August 2023
19 m awayRef 2023101338138
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Sharan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Sharan)
- 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 2017100157635 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newcastle upon Tyne road accident statistics for 2017.