Serious B1299 crash in South Tyneside on 5 May 2018 at 17:30 involving a BMW 5 Series
Four vehicles, including a BMW 5 Series and a Nissan Note, were involved in a crash on the B1299 in South Tyneside at 17:30 on Saturday 5 May 2018. A 4-year-old female passenger in the Nissan Juke was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 May 2018
- Saturday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 4
- BMW 5 Series and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.9495, longitude -1.4129, in the SR6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cleadon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cleadon Village & East Boldon, South Tyneside, SR6 7QW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Tyneside
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018100290835
- Council area
- South Tyneside
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1299
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- 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, 53 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 May 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the B1299 in South Tyneside, 13 May 1981
53 m awayRef 198110G013881
Slight
Car crash on the B1299 in South Tyneside, 2 August 1984
94 m awayRef 198410E112784
Slight
Car crash on the B1299 in South Tyneside, 20 December 1987
116 m awayRef 198710E119887
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B1299 in South Tyneside, 8 May 2007
160 m awayRef 2007100307307
Slight
Dennis crash on the B1299 in South Tyneside, 23 October 1999
167 m awayRef 199910L386099
Serious
Land Rover Discovery crash on the B1299 in South Tyneside, 10 November 2016
184 m awayRef 2016100125572
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Note
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 76 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Nissan Juke
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 4: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 4, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Nissan Juke)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018100290835 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 2018.