A172 crash in Middlesbrough on 6 July 2005 at 08:50 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on the A172 in Middlesbrough at 08:50 on Wednesday 6 July 2005. An 8-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jul 2005
- Wednesday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.56277, longitude -1.22486, in the TS4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Middlesbrough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Longlands & Beechwood, Middlesbrough, TS4 2RD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005170M12055
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 172
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 July 1982.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 2 July 1982
At the same spotRef 198217E100703
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 12 December 2025
9 m awayRef 202517M115825
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 17 October 2009
14 m awayRef 2009170M12539
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 17 March 2022
15 m awayRef 2022170M10432
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 13 December 2012
18 m awayRef 2012170M13432
Slight
Car crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 8 May 1984
20 m awayRef 198417L100491
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2005170M12055 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 2005.