A66 crash in Middlesbrough on 27 December 2004 at 23:52 involving a Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle
A Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle crashed on the A66 in Middlesbrough at 23:52 on Monday 27 December 2004. The 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 50 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2004
- Monday, 23:52
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot Speedfight
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.57816, longitude -1.24252, 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 1RP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004170M14534
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 1272
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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 May 1981.
Serious
Car crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 14 May 1981
14 m awayRef 198117E100531
Fatal
Car crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 14 December 1989
22 m awayRef 198917L101611
Slight
Bedford crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 22 January 1991
32 m awayRef 199117L100090
Fatal
Lorry crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 7 December 1984
36 m awayRef 198417L101421
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 12 January 1996
40 m awayRef 199617M100050
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 8 December 1999
40 m awayRef 199917M100471
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Speedfight
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Peugeot Speedfight)
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 2004170M14534 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 2004.