Serious A172 crash in Middlesbrough on 24 December 1995 at 19:00 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier hit a pedestrian on the A172 in Middlesbrough at 19:00 on Sunday 24 December 1995. A 13-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Dec 1995
- Sunday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.5624, longitude -1.22442, in the TS4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Middlesbrough.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199517M101200
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 172
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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 3 February 2008.
Slight
Car crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 3 February 2008
At the same spotRef 2008170M10198
Slight
Car crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 29 June 1980
10 m awayRef 198017E100666
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 22 April 1982
10 m awayRef 198217E100437
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 25 February 2000
10 m awayRef 200017M100077
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 18 January 2009
10 m awayRef 2009170M10189
Slight
Van crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 14 June 1982
10 m awayRef 198217E100639
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- 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 199517M101200 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 1995.