A1086 crash in Hartlepool on 20 December 1986 at 16:10 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on the A1086 in Hartlepool at 16:10 on Saturday 20 December 1986. A 32-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 1986
- Saturday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198617J100738
- Council area
- Hartlepool
- Police force
- Cleveland
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1086
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 32, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 198617J100738 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.