B1272 crash in Middlesbrough on 24 December 2003 at 16:35 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the B1272 in Middlesbrough at 16:35 on Wednesday 24 December 2003. The 53-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2003
- Wednesday, 16:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.56978, longitude -1.23896, in the TS1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Middlesbrough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central, Middlesbrough, TS1 3BB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Middlesbrough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003170M14823
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1272
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 7 March 1981.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 7 March 1981
At the same spotRef 198117E100278
Slight
Car crash on the B1272 in Middlesbrough, 24 January 1985
At the same spotRef 198517L100074
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 7 June 1989
At the same spotRef 198917L100875
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the B1272 in Middlesbrough, 13 February 2003
At the same spotRef 2003170M10623
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B1272 in Middlesbrough, 20 March 2004
At the same spotRef 2004170M10984
Slight
Scania crash on the B1272 in Middlesbrough, 15 April 2004
At the same spotRef 2004170M11204
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,119 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2003170M14823 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.