Serious A66 crash in Middlesbrough on 9 February 2003 at 02:35 involving a Peugeot 405
A Peugeot 405 crashed on the A66 in Middlesbrough at 02:35 on Sunday 9 February 2003. A 29-year-old female passenger and a 29-year-old female passenger were seriously injured and a 17-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 50 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Feb 2003
- Sunday, 02:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 405
- Casualties
- 3
- 2 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.57341, longitude -1.21615, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003170M20483
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 24 November 2003.
Serious
Renault crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 24 November 2003
At the same spotRef 2003170M24153
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 27 December 2000
At the same spotRef 200017M200565
Slight
Van crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 11 December 1991
At the same spotRef 199117L101403
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 9 August 2003
10 m awayRef 2003170M12563
Slight
Car crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 31 December 1997
14 m awayRef 199717M201150
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 4 June 1990
22 m awayRef 199017L200710
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 405
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 405)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 405)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 405)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2003170M20483 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.