Unclassified road crash in Middlesbrough TS3 on 16 December 1981 at 13:48 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough at 13:48 on Wednesday 16 December 1981. A 12-year-old male passenger, a 12-year-old male passenger and an 11-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 1981
- Wednesday, 13:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.5638, longitude -1.19145, in the TS3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Middlesbrough.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198117F101588
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 1998.
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 11, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 198117F101588 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.