A66 crash in Middlesbrough on 2 July 2003 at 14:30 involving a Suzuki Baleno
A Suzuki Baleno and a BMW 5 Series were involved in a crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough at 14:30 on Wednesday 2 July 2003. The 33-year-old male driver of the Suzuki Baleno was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 50 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jul 2003
- Wednesday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki Baleno and BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.57548, longitude -1.20327, in the TS3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central, Middlesbrough, TS3 6AS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Middlesbrough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003170M22243
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- A
- Second road number
- 171
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 13 January 1992.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 13 January 1992
At the same spotRef 199217L200044
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 25 June 2004
At the same spotRef 2004170M12164
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 23 February 2001
At the same spotRef 200117M200078
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 11 September 2004
At the same spotRef 2004170M23154
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 24 August 1995
At the same spotRef 199517M200742
Serious
Peugeot 308 crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 18 August 2025
7 m awayRef 202517M110725
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Baleno
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Baleno)
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 2003170M22243 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.