Unclassified road crash in Gateshead NE40 on 14 December 2020 at 21:10 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead at 21:10 on Monday 14 December 2020. The 26-year-old female driver of the Mercedes A Class was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2020
- Monday, 21:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes A Class and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.95785, longitude -1.78161, in the NE40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crawcrook and Greenside. It is one of the crashes that make up the Crawcrook & Greenside, Gateshead, NE40 4DH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gateshead
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020101017181
- 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
- 60 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
- B
- Second road number
- 6315
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 April 1987.
Serious
Car crash on the B6315 in Gateshead, 19 April 1987
6 m awayRef 198710D305287
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on the B6315 in Gateshead, 21 August 2015
6 m awayRef 2015100505115
Slight
BYD Seal Design EV crash on the B6315 in Gateshead, 25 June 2025
9 m awayRef 2025101610133
Slight
Vauxhall Calibra crash on the B6315 in Gateshead, 4 October 2003
11 m awayRef 2003100851703
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on the B6315 in Gateshead, 19 March 2001
12 m awayRef 200110K106301
Slight
Van crash on the B6315 in Gateshead, 16 March 1984
12 m awayRef 198410D304784
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes A Class)
- 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 2020101017181 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 2020.