A66 crash in Middlesbrough on 11 September 2004 at 12:45 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough at 12:45 on Saturday 11 September 2004. A 45-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 50 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Sep 2004
- Saturday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Vauxhall Vectra
- 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
- 2004170M23154
- 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
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
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 Fiesta crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 24 August 1995
At the same spotRef 199517M200742
Slight
Suzuki Baleno crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 2 July 2003
At the same spotRef 2003170M22243
Serious
Peugeot 308 crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 18 August 2025
7 m awayRef 202517M110725
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2004170M23154 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.