A171 crash in Middlesbrough on 3 May 1987 at 23:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A171 in Middlesbrough at 23:20 on Sunday 3 May 1987. A 19-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 3 May 1987
- Sunday, 23:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.55313, longitude -1.18239, 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
- 198717L200499
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 171
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 11 April 2008.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough, 11 April 2008
At the same spotRef 2008170M20828
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough, 8 March 1998
At the same spotRef 199817M200210
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough, 13 January 2016
3 m awayRef 2016170M20266
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough, 5 November 2025
5 m awayRef 202517M114325
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough, 25 November 2017
6 m awayRef 2017170M12157
Slight
Mercedes CLC Class crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough, 20 September 2018
7 m awayRef 2018170M21678
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 198717L200499 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 1987.