Unclassified road crash in Middlesbrough TS1 on 17 September 1981 at 03:22 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough at 03:22 on Thursday 17 September 1981. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Sep 1981
- Thursday, 03:22
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.56655, longitude -1.2279, in the TS1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Middlesbrough.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198117E101012
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Road sign or marking defective or obscured
- Carriageway hazards
- Permanent road signing or markings defective or obscured or inadequate
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 January 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A1085 in Middlesbrough, 21 January 1980
At the same spotRef 198017E100073
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Van crash on the A1085 in Middlesbrough, 2 March 1989
At the same spotRef 198917L100346
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 16 September 1980
At the same spotRef 198017E100985
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 18 January 1998
At the same spotRef 199817M100063
Slight
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At the same spotRef 2008170M12638
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 23 April 1999
At the same spotRef 199917M100155
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 198117E101012 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 1981.