B1298 crash in South Tyneside on 23 September 2025 at 15:00 involving a Ssangyong Rexton
A bicycle and a Ssangyong Rexton were involved in a crash on the B1298 in South Tyneside at 15:00 on Tuesday 23 September 2025. The 15-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Sep 2025
- Tuesday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Ssangyong Rexton
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.95422, longitude -1.43664, in the NE34 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Tyneside
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025101645890
- Council area
- South Tyneside
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1298
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 November 2003.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B1298 in South Tyneside, 29 November 2003
50 m awayRef 2003101039803
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B1298 in South Tyneside, 3 October 2009
53 m awayRef 2009100652609
Slight
Bus crash on the B1298 in South Tyneside, 21 April 2025
91 m awayRef 2025101581496
Serious
Taxi crash on the B1298 in South Tyneside, 26 January 2002
103 m awayRef 200210L027002
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1298 in South Tyneside, 15 November 2007
122 m awayRef 2007100816607
Serious
BMW 4 Series crash on the B1298 in South Tyneside, 1 October 2020
126 m awayRef 2020100986635
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Ssangyong Rexton
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,157 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 15, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 2025101645890 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Tyneside road accident statistics for 2025.