A66 crash in Middlesbrough on 18 December 2002 at 14:25 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Toyota Avensis were involved in a crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough at 14:25 on Wednesday 18 December 2002. The 23-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 50 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2002
- Wednesday, 14:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Toyota Avensis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.57332, longitude -1.21584, in the TS3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central, Middlesbrough, TS4 2DA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Middlesbrough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002170M24852
- 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
- Unclassified
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 serious injury crash on 16 August 1993.
Serious
Van crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 16 August 1993
At the same spotRef 199317M100754
Serious
BMW C1 crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 12 January 2004
10 m awayRef 2004170M20294
Slight
Car crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 31 December 1997
10 m awayRef 199717M201150
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 15 December 1996
10 m awayRef 199617M201208
Slight
Scania crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 22 January 1996
10 m awayRef 199617M200063
Slight
Car crash on the A175 in Middlesbrough, 3 March 1979
14 m awayRef 197917F100274
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2002170M24852 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.