Serious A19 crash in Hartlepool on 18 December 1986 at 20:40 involving a car
A car crashed on the A19 in Hartlepool at 20:40 on Thursday 18 December 1986. The 52-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Dec 1986
- Thursday, 20:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198617J100727
- Council area
- Hartlepool
- Police force
- Cleveland
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 19
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 52, 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 198617J100727 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 1986.