A1048 crash in Hartlepool on 16 December 1985 at 23:05 involving a car
A car crashed on the A1048 in Hartlepool at 23:05 on Monday 16 December 1985. The 40-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 1985
- Monday, 23:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.70208, longitude -1.20097, in the TS24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hartlepool.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198517J100743
- Council area
- Hartlepool
- Police force
- Cleveland
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1048
- 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
- 1049
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 20 September 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A1048 in Hartlepool, 20 September 1989
At the same spotRef 198917K101713
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1048 in Hartlepool, 30 May 1992
At the same spotRef 199217K100840
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1049 in Hartlepool, 11 September 2018
5 m awayRef 2018170H10558
Slight
Ford Tourneo crash on the A1049 in Hartlepool, 31 October 2025
10 m awayRef 202517H109025
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1048 in Hartlepool, 31 January 1996
10 m awayRef 199617H100053
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A1049 in Hartlepool, 6 March 1998
10 m awayRef 199817H100112
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, 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 198517J100743 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hartlepool road accident statistics for 1985.