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Unclassified road crash in Sunderland DH4 on 21 December 2020 at 17:30 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sunderland at 17:30 on Monday 21 December 2020. An 18-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
21 Dec 2020
Monday, 17:30
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.85786, longitude -1.4769, in the DH4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newbottle. It is one of the crashes that make up the Houghton North, Sunderland, DH4 4FB area accident hotspot.

Map of where the crash happened in Sunderland

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2020101009754
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
A
Second road number
182

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fog or mist
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 December 2001.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    West
    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
    20 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside
    Home area deprivation
    10 to 20% 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 2020101009754 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 2020.