A1 crash in North Tyneside on 28 January 2025 at 07:58 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A1 in North Tyneside at 07:58 on Tuesday 28 January 2025. The 30-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet slip road with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jan 2025
- Tuesday, 07:58
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford KA and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.06131, longitude -1.63609, in the NE13 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Weetslade, North Tyneside, NE13 6BH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Tyneside
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025101547764
- Council area
- North Tyneside
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 August 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A6125 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 30 August 1985
9 m awayRef 198510B512685
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A1 in North Tyneside, 24 April 2007
12 m awayRef 2007100270307
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1 in North Tyneside, 4 February 2020
22 m awayRef 2020100926846
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A1 in North Tyneside, 21 August 2015
26 m awayRef 2015100519415
Slight
Car crash on the A1 in North Tyneside, 7 August 2019
27 m awayRef 2019100865820
Slight
Volkswagen T-Roc crash on the A1 in North Tyneside, 12 July 2022
27 m awayRef 2022101201892
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
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 2025101547764 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Tyneside road accident statistics for 2025.