Serious unclassified road crash in Sunderland NE9 on 2 August 2019 at 17:05 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland at 17:05 on Friday 2 August 2019. The 6-year-old male cyclist was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Aug 2019
- Friday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.92101, longitude -1.55646, in the NE9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Springwell.
Map of where the crash happened in Sunderland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019100865183
- Council area
- Sunderland
- 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
- 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, 72 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 April 2003.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 21 April 2003
72 m awayRef 2003100862103
Serious
BMW X5 crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 19 November 2019
99 m awayRef 2019100900690
Serious
Citroen C2 crash on the B1288 in Sunderland, 18 April 2008
102 m awayRef 2008100273108
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B1288 in Sunderland, 13 March 2002
103 m awayRef 200210O117902
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the B1288 in Sunderland, 9 April 2007
104 m awayRef 2007100233707
Slight
Citroen C1 crash on the B1288 in Sunderland, 28 September 2025
109 m awayRef 2025101648374
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 6, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- 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 2019100865183 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 2019.