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A172 crash in Middlesbrough on 23 March 1985 at 22:40 involving a taxi

A taxi hit a pedestrian on the A172 in Middlesbrough at 22:40 on Saturday 23 March 1985. A 33-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
23 Mar 1985
Saturday, 22:40
Vehicles
1
Taxi
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.54796, longitude -1.2165, in the TS4 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Middlesbrough

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198517L100308
Council area
Middlesbrough
Police force
Cleveland

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
172
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 October 1982.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    37 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 33, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 198517L100308 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 1985.