A171 crash in Middlesbrough on 20 August 2002 at 13:30 involving a car
A car and a lorry were involved in a crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough at 13:30 on Tuesday 20 August 2002. The 24-year-old male driver of the car and a 43-year-old female passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Aug 2002
- Tuesday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and lorry
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.55342, longitude -1.18283, in the TS3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Middlesbrough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Park End & Beckfield, Middlesbrough, TS3 0PQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Middlesbrough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002170M23302
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 171
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 8 October 1995.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough, 8 October 1995
At the same spotRef 199517M200912
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough, 9 June 2001
At the same spotRef 200117M100209
Slight
Van crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough, 25 February 1986
At the same spotRef 198617L200219
Slight
Opel Ascona crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough, 2 January 1990
At the same spotRef 199017L200009
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough, 13 June 2002
At the same spotRef 200217M200231
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough, 24 June 2003
10 m awayRef 2003170M21983
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2002170M23302 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 2002.