Serious B1298 crash in South Tyneside on 24 February 2017 at 11:49 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B1298 in South Tyneside at 11:49 on Friday 24 February 2017. A 70-year-old female pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Feb 2017
- Friday, 11:49
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.97276, longitude -1.4398, in the NE34 postcode district and within the built-up area of South Shields. It is one of the crashes that make up the Biddick & All Saints, South Tyneside, NE33 4RF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Tyneside
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017100168656
- Council area
- South Tyneside
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1298
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 2 April 1987.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1298 in South Tyneside, 2 April 1987
1 m awayRef 198710E105287
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the B1298 in South Tyneside, 26 December 2025
7 m awayRef 2025101688298
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the B1298 in South Tyneside, 28 September 2010
9 m awayRef 2010100603410
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1298 in South Tyneside, 1 April 2005
11 m awayRef 2005100258605
Slight
Bedford Astra crash on the B1298 in South Tyneside, 13 October 1997
11 m awayRef 199710L034697
Slight
Car crash on the B1298 in South Tyneside, 22 March 1989
21 m awayRef 198910E104989
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 70, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2017100168656 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Tyneside road accident statistics for 2017.