B6918 crash in Newcastle upon Tyne on 19 April 2017 at 13:15 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the B6918 in Newcastle upon Tyne at 13:15 on Wednesday 19 April 2017. The 79-year-old male driver 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
- 19 Apr 2017
- Wednesday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.02063, longitude -1.69159, in the NE13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Newcastle upon Tyne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017100199590
- Council area
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6918
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 November 1990.
Slight
Car crash on the A696 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 10 November 1990
8 m awayRef 199010B422590
Slight
Car crash on the A696 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 9 December 1985
14 m awayRef 198510B420885
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6918 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 11 November 1996
14 m awayRef 199610G084596
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A696 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 4 June 1980
17 m awayRef 198010E026280
Slight
Car crash on the A696 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 17 September 1981
22 m awayRef 198110E045281
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Newcastle upon Tyne, 6 June 1998
22 m awayRef 199810G044198
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 79 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 79, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2017100199590 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.