A1 crash in North Tyneside on 23 December 2017 at 09:00 involving a Toyota GT86
A Toyota GT86 crashed on the A1 in North Tyneside at 09:00 on Saturday 23 December 2017. The 59-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2017
- Saturday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota GT86
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.06058, longitude -1.63592, in the NE13 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Weetslade, North Tyneside, NE13 6BH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Tyneside
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017100252428
- Council area
- North Tyneside
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 September 1992.
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A1 in North Tyneside, 28 September 1992
10 m awayRef 199210C318792
Slight
Volvo V70 crash on the A1 in North Tyneside, 19 May 1999
12 m awayRef 199910G174899
Slight
MG Metro crash on the A6125 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 21 February 1990
13 m awayRef 199010B504590
Slight
Car crash on the A6125 in North Tyneside, 15 January 1982
17 m awayRef 198210C301282
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A1 in North Tyneside, 5 April 2020
19 m awayRef 2020100951615
Fatal
Car crash on the A6125 in North Tyneside, 21 February 1983
22 m awayRef 198310C303483
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota GT86
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota GT86)
- 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 2017100252428 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Tyneside road accident statistics for 2017.