A167 crash in Gateshead on 29 November 2025 at 00:22 involving a Peugeot 2008
A Peugeot 2008 and an Audi A4 taxi were involved in a crash on the A167 in Gateshead at 00:22 on Saturday 29 November 2025. A 29-year-old male passenger in the Peugeot 2008 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Nov 2025
- Saturday, 00:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 2008 and Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.94173, longitude -1.59946, in the NE9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gateshead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Saltwell, Gateshead, NE8 4SJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025101676563
- Council area
- Gateshead
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 167
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 June 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A6127 in Gateshead, 25 June 1986
11 m awayRef 198610D112286
Slight
Lorry crash on the A6127 in Gateshead, 6 April 1987
20 m awayRef 198710D107387
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A167 in Gateshead, 5 February 1998
28 m awayRef 199810J006498
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A167 in Gateshead, 13 November 2008
33 m awayRef 2008100830508
Slight
Car crash on the A6127 in Gateshead, 15 September 1984
33 m awayRef 198410D117784
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A167 in Gateshead, 14 December 2011
33 m awayRef 2011100731611
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 2008
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Vehicle 2: Audi A4
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,395 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 2008)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2025101676563 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gateshead road accident statistics for 2025.