A1085 crash in Middlesbrough on 2 January 1980 at 13:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A1085 in Middlesbrough at 13:00 on Wednesday 2 January 1980. The 57-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 52-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jan 1980
- Wednesday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.56622, longitude -1.21832, 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
- 198017E100004
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1085
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 November 1987.
Slight
Van crash on the A1085 in Middlesbrough, 6 November 1987
At the same spotRef 198717L201263
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 12 October 2005
At the same spotRef 2005170M13245
Slight
Car crash on the A1085 in Middlesbrough, 10 September 1987
At the same spotRef 198717L200998
Slight
Car crash on the A1085 in Middlesbrough, 10 January 1983
At the same spotRef 198317L100027
Serious
Car crash on the A1085 in Middlesbrough, 9 March 1980
At the same spotRef 198017E100276
Serious
Skoda Octavia crash on the A1085 in Middlesbrough, 20 September 2019
8 m awayRef 2019170M11299
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 198017E100004 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 1980.