Serious B1298 crash in South Tyneside on 1 October 2020 at 15:00 involving a BMW 4 Series
A BMW 4 Series hit a pedestrian on the B1298 in South Tyneside at 15:00 on Thursday 1 October 2020. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Oct 2020
- Thursday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 4 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.95312, longitude -1.43625, in the NE36 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cleadon Village & East Boldon, South Tyneside, NE36 0EG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Tyneside
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020100986635
- Council area
- South Tyneside
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1298
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 24 November 2013.
Slight
Volvo crash on the B1298 in South Tyneside, 24 November 2013
1 m awayRef 2013100643613
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1298 in South Tyneside, 15 November 2007
5 m awayRef 2007100816607
Slight
Mercedes 190 crash on the B1298 in South Tyneside, 28 April 1993
8 m awayRef 199310E205493
Slight
MG Montego crash on the B1298 in South Tyneside, 23 March 1993
8 m awayRef 199310E204093
Serious
Taxi crash on the B1298 in South Tyneside, 26 January 2002
23 m awayRef 200210L027002
Slight
Bus crash on the B1298 in South Tyneside, 21 April 2025
35 m awayRef 2025101581496
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 4 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 4 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
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 2020100986635 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 2020.