A172 crash in Middlesbrough on 2 March 2002 at 07:45 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla and a Vauxhall Nova were involved in a crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough at 07:45 on Saturday 2 March 2002. The 40-year-old male driver of the Toyota Corolla was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Mar 2002
- Saturday, 07:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Corolla and Vauxhall Nova
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.52178, longitude -1.18253, in the TS7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Middlesbrough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough, TS7 0LZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Middlesbrough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200217M300081
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 172
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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 16 April 1989.
Slight
Taxi crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 16 April 1989
At the same spotRef 198917L200486
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 21 September 1991
At the same spotRef 199117L201021
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 27 June 1990
At the same spotRef 199017L200833
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 5 December 2002
At the same spotRef 2002170M35202
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 9 April 2002
At the same spotRef 200217M300134
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 30 May 1985
At the same spotRef 198517L200556
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,332 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Corolla)
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 200217M300081 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.