Unclassified road crash in Sunderland SR1 on 22 February 2025 at 01:10 involving a Peugeot Horizon taxi
A Peugeot Horizon taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sunderland at 01:10 on Saturday 22 February 2025. A 48-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Feb 2025
- Saturday, 01:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot Horizon
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.90356, longitude -1.38756, in the SR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sunderland. It is one of the crashes that make up the Deptford & Hendon, Sunderland, SR1 3JQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025101557290
- 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
- 20 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 9 July 1999.
Slight
Leyland crash on a C road in Sunderland, 9 July 1999
1 m awayRef 199910M248299
Slight
Volvo crash on a C road in Sunderland, 10 February 2008
1 m awayRef 2008100117808
Slight
Optare Metrorider crash on a C road in Sunderland, 18 May 2000
1 m awayRef 200010M175300
Slight
Wrightbus Streetlite crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 12 January 2019
6 m awayRef 2019100354588
Slight
Peugeot Expert crash on a C road in Sunderland, 1 June 2017
7 m awayRef 2017100208539
Slight
Dennis crash on a C road in Sunderland, 7 November 2003
10 m awayRef 2003100954303
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Horizon
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 48, hit by vehicle 1 (Peugeot Horizon)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 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 2025101557290 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 2025.