Serious unclassified road crash in Sunderland NE38 on 1 July 2025 at 10:30 involving a Fiat 500
A Fiat 500 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sunderland at 10:30 on Tuesday 1 July 2025. A 39-year-old male pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Jul 2025
- Tuesday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat 500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.88291, longitude -1.55694, in the NE38 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Birtley South, Gateshead, DH3 2AQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sunderland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025101613389
- Council area
- Sunderland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 September 2025.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 12 September 2025
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Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Sunderland, 22 May 2003
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Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 25 January 1996
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Slight
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23 m awayRef 199010F410090
Slight
Ford Orion crash on a C road in Sunderland, 11 May 1999
23 m awayRef 199910O168699
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 39, hit by vehicle 1 (Fiat 500)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
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 2025101613389 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.