Unclassified road crash in Sunderland DH5 on 29 April 2021 at 15:20 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sunderland at 15:20 on Thursday 29 April 2021. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Apr 2021
- Thursday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.81477, longitude -1.46009, in the DH5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hetton-le-Hole.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021101040652
- 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
- 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, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 March 2002.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Sunderland, 23 March 2002
16 m awayRef 200210O110202
Serious
Honda ADV750 crash on a C road in Sunderland, 11 October 2025
27 m awayRef 2025101653722
Serious
Van crash on a C road in Sunderland, 7 April 2025
29 m awayRef 2025101574956
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 26 August 2007
45 m awayRef 2007100634807
Serious
Triumph Acclaim crash on a C road in Sunderland, 7 December 1994
50 m awayRef 199410O031094
Slight
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 24 October 2003
67 m awayRef 2003100926603
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
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
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2021101040652 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 2021.