Unclassified road crash in Gateshead NE21 on 1 December 2018 at 19:47 involving a Skoda Superb taxi
A Skoda Superb taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Gateshead at 19:47 on Saturday 1 December 2018. A 31-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 2018
- Saturday, 19:47
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Superb
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.95464, longitude -1.72638, in the NE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blaydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Winlaton & High Spen, Gateshead, NE21 6PF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gateshead
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018100347957
- 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
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 19 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 October 1989.
Serious
Van crash on a C road in Gateshead, 27 October 1989
19 m awayRef 198910D320689
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Gateshead, 16 November 1995
28 m awayRef 199510K060695
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 21 October 2016
28 m awayRef 2016100155046
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 29 August 1995
32 m awayRef 199510K040595
Slight
Volvo crash on a C road in Gateshead, 5 August 2011
35 m awayRef 2011100501711
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 25 May 2012
36 m awayRef 2012100303012
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Superb
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 31, hit by vehicle 1 (Skoda Superb)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018100347957 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.