A1231 crash in Sunderland on 9 October 2018 at 21:40 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra, a Citroen C1 and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on the A1231 in Sunderland at 21:40 on Tuesday 9 October 2018. A 16-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra and a 20-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Oct 2018
- Tuesday, 21:40
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Astra and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.90137, longitude -1.54309, in the NE38 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Washington Central, Sunderland, NE37 1NB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sunderland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018100334581
- Council area
- Sunderland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1231
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 2015.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A1231 in Sunderland, 9 December 2015
11 m awayRef 2015100770815
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A1231 in Sunderland, 5 December 2020
16 m awayRef 2020101006338
Serious
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A1231 in Sunderland, 22 March 2014
20 m awayRef 2014100157714
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A1231 in Sunderland, 31 October 1995
25 m awayRef 199510O025895
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A1231 in Sunderland, 26 February 1997
40 m awayRef 199710O005497
Slight
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 6 October 2021
51 m awayRef 2021101096060
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Citroen C1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018100334581 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sunderland road accident statistics for 2018.