C road crash in Middlesbrough TS4 on 13 May 1998 at 23:05 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on a C road in Middlesbrough at 23:05 on Wednesday 13 May 1998. All five casualties were slightly injured. One of them was a pedestrian.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 May 1998
- Wednesday, 23:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 5
- 5 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.55586, longitude -1.22888, in the TS4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Middlesbrough.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199817M100333
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 March 1997.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 14 March 1997
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Fatal
Car crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 12 August 1989
At the same spotRef 198917L100994
Serious
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 5: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 199817M100333 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 1998.