B1288 crash in Sunderland on 23 March 2023 at 14:30 involving a Citroen C4
A Citroen C4 hit a pedestrian on the B1288 in Sunderland at 14:30 on Thursday 23 March 2023. A 17-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 2023
- Thursday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.9188, longitude -1.5527, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023101290251
- Council area
- Sunderland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1288
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 September 2008.
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the B1288 in Sunderland, 2 September 2008
5 m awayRef 2008100616708
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B1288 in Sunderland, 4 May 2009
11 m awayRef 2009100289409
Slight
Car crash on the B1288 in Sunderland, 8 September 1989
32 m awayRef 198910F418589
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Sunderland, 13 February 1980
32 m awayRef 198010H009980
Slight
Car crash on the B1288 in Sunderland, 18 October 1985
32 m awayRef 198510F419385
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B1288 in Sunderland, 9 June 2008
32 m awayRef 2008100784108
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 17, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen C4)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2023101290251 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 2023.