A172 crash in Middlesbrough on 8 November 1979 at 23:00 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A172 in Middlesbrough at 23:00 on Thursday 8 November 1979. A 71-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Nov 1979
- Thursday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.55717, longitude -1.22266, in the TS4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Middlesbrough.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197917E101271
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 172
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 September 1995.
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 7 September 1995
10 m awayRef 199517M100783
Serious
Peugeot crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 14 December 2007
10 m awayRef 2007170M13137
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 22 January 2004
14 m awayRef 2004170M10414
Slight
Car crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 16 July 1988
14 m awayRef 198817L200911
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 5 March 1999
14 m awayRef 199917M100082
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 4 June 2018
15 m awayRef 2018170M10978
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- On lay-by or hard shoulder
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 71, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Alighting
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 197917E101271 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Middlesbrough road accident statistics for 1979.