B1311 crash in Newcastle upon Tyne on 13 September 2017 at 21:40 involving a Vauxhall Meriva
A car and a Vauxhall Meriva were involved in a crash on the B1311 in Newcastle upon Tyne at 21:40 on Wednesday 13 September 2017. The 27-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Meriva was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Sep 2017
- Wednesday, 21:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Meriva
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.97548, longitude -1.68384, in the NE15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newcastle upon Tyne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Benwell, Scotswood & Denton Burn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE15 7UT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Newcastle upon Tyne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017100228495
- Council area
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1311
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine with 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 July 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the B6328 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 3 July 1984
7 m awayRef 198410B410384
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the B1311 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 1 October 1996
15 m awayRef 199610F073096
Serious
Car crash on the B6328 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 5 February 1987
15 m awayRef 198710B400987
Serious
Van crash on the B6328 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 1 July 1980
15 m awayRef 198010E032180
Fatal
Alexander Dennis crash on the B1311 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 11 February 2015
17 m awayRef 2015100083915
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the B1311 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 27 April 1992
17 m awayRef 199210B406692
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Meriva
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Meriva)
- 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 2017100228495 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.