Unclassified road crash in Gateshead NE8 on 3 January 2018 at 16:00 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Gateshead at 16:00 on Wednesday 3 January 2018. A 5-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 3 Jan 2018
- Wednesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.95391, longitude -1.60203, in the NE8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gateshead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bridges, Gateshead, NE8 1PL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gateshead
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018100254361
- Council area
- Gateshead
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 December 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Antara crash on the B1426 in Gateshead, 21 December 2013
2 m awayRef 2013100737013
Slight
Hyundai X2 crash on a C road in Gateshead, 19 October 1996
4 m awayRef 199610J056196
Serious
Optare Versa crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 29 November 2018
5 m awayRef 2018100347671
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Gateshead, 27 December 1996
6 m awayRef 199610J074296
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on a C road in Gateshead, 20 February 2004
6 m awayRef 2004100144604
Slight
Car crash on the A6084 in Gateshead, 5 September 1988
6 m awayRef 198810D119788
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi A4)
- 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 2018100254361 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gateshead road accident statistics for 2018.