Unclassified road crash in Middlesbrough TS4 on 16 November 1979 at 23:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough at 23:00 on Friday 16 November 1979. A 39-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Nov 1979
- Friday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.55816, longitude -1.22311, 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
- 197917E101318
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 172
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 February 1990.
Slight
Jaguar XJ Series crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 7 February 1990
14 m awayRef 199017L100201
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 21 October 1992
14 m awayRef 199217M105421
Slight
Car crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 24 May 1986
14 m awayRef 198617L100591
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 30 August 2022
19 m awayRef 2022170M11432
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 28 January 2001
22 m awayRef 200117M100026
Slight
Car crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 18 February 1983
22 m awayRef 198317L100203
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 39, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 197917E101318 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.