Unclassified road crash in Middlesbrough TS3 on 4 January 1997 at 14:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough at 14:00 on Saturday 4 January 1997. The 25-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jan 1997
- Saturday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.5733, longitude -1.21493, in the TS3 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199717M200010
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Daylight
- 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 4 January 1997.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 199717M200010 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 1997.