A19 crash in Hartlepool on 21 December 2002 at 17:14 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series crashed on the A19 in Hartlepool at 17:14 on Saturday 21 December 2002. The 53-year-old female driver and a 74-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2002
- Saturday, 17:14
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.6807, longitude -1.30234, in the TS27 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002170H12582
- Council area
- Hartlepool
- Police force
- Cleveland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 19
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 2003.
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A19 in Hartlepool, 11 October 2003
22 m awayRef 2003170H11963
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A19 in Hartlepool, 15 July 1999
30 m awayRef 199917H100135
Serious
Car crash on the A19 in Hartlepool, 4 November 1979
36 m awayRef 197917G100744
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the A19 in Hartlepool, 23 October 2003
36 m awayRef 2003170H12063
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A19 in Hartlepool, 23 November 2017
36 m awayRef 2017170H11007
Slight
Car crash on the A19 in Hartlepool, 11 December 1979
41 m awayRef 197917G100859
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 74, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2002170H12582 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hartlepool road accident statistics for 2002.