A171 crash in Middlesbrough on 14 July 1987 at 14:55 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough at 14:55 on Tuesday 14 July 1987. The 22-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jul 1987
- Tuesday, 14:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.57125, longitude -1.21714, 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
- 198717L200767
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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 12 November 2003.
Slight
Rover Range Rover crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 12 November 2003
At the same spotRef 2003170M24163
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough, 11 June 1981
At the same spotRef 198117F100729
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 2 December 2014
21 m awayRef 2014170M22824
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 13 May 2024
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Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough, 23 November 1990
28 m awayRef 199017L201490
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 21 October 1998
28 m awayRef 199817M200579
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 198717L200767 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.