A66 crash in Middlesbrough on 23 February 2001 at 09:45 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough at 09:45 on Friday 23 February 2001. A 33-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta, a 27-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta and the 40-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 50 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Feb 2001
- Friday, 09:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Saxo and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.57548, longitude -1.20327, in the TS3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central, Middlesbrough, TS3 6AS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Middlesbrough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200117M200078
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 66
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 171
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 13 January 1992.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 13 January 1992
At the same spotRef 199217L200044
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 25 June 2004
At the same spotRef 2004170M12164
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 11 September 2004
At the same spotRef 2004170M23154
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 24 August 1995
At the same spotRef 199517M200742
Slight
Suzuki Baleno crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 2 July 2003
At the same spotRef 2003170M22243
Serious
Peugeot 308 crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 18 August 2025
7 m awayRef 202517M110725
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 200117M200078 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 2001.