Serious unclassified road crash in Middlesbrough TS3 on 10 August 1998 at 13:38 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough at 13:38 on Monday 10 August 1998. A 5-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Aug 1998
- Monday, 13:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.55402, longitude -1.20757, in the TS3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Middlesbrough.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199817M200466
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 1994.
Slight
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Serious
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Slight
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Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 21 May 1986
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Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 23 October 1991
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 22 December 1984
50 m awayRef 198417L201480
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 199817M200466 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.