A66 crash in Middlesbrough on 3 April 2003 at 07:11 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A66 in Middlesbrough at 07:11 on Thursday 3 April 2003. The 21-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 50 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Apr 2003
- Thursday, 07:11
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.56248, longitude -1.26523, in the TS5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newport, Middlesbrough, TS5 4AD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Middlesbrough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003170M11053
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 66
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 19
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 slight injury crash on 11 October 2003.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 11 October 2003
At the same spotRef 2003170M13533
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 19 December 1998
10 m awayRef 199817M100708
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 20 April 2025
11 m awayRef 202517M104925
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A19 in Middlesbrough, 16 February 1991
14 m awayRef 199117L100198
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Car crash on the A19 in Middlesbrough, 12 March 1983
14 m awayRef 198317L100304
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 22 January 1995
14 m awayRef 199517M100087
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 98 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2003170M11053 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 2003.