C road crash in Middlesbrough TS3 on 24 May 2002 at 13:30 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on a C road in Middlesbrough at 13:30 on Friday 24 May 2002. The 43-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 May 2002
- Friday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.56264, longitude -1.20538, in the TS3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Middlesbrough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Berwick Hills & Pallister, Middlesbrough, TS3 8LL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Middlesbrough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200217M100187
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 January 1985.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 3 January 1985
At the same spotRef 198517L200012
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 26 August 1995
10 m awayRef 199517M200746
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 22 August 1992
14 m awayRef 199217M205189
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 2 January 2020
19 m awayRef 2020170M20010
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 30 April 1988
22 m awayRef 198817L200594
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 20 February 2025
31 m awayRef 202517M202525
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 200217M100187 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.