A178 crash in Hartlepool on 19 April 2007 at 07:02 involving a Suzuki EN 125 motorcycle
A Suzuki EN 125 motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A178 in Hartlepool at 07:02 on Thursday 19 April 2007. The 39-year-old male rider of the Suzuki EN 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Apr 2007
- Thursday, 07:02
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki EN 125 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.65896, longitude -1.18722, in the TS25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hartlepool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Seaton, Hartlepool, TS25 1BH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hartlepool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007170H10577
- Council area
- Hartlepool
- Police force
- Cleveland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 178
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 September 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A178 in Hartlepool, 5 September 1988
At the same spotRef 198817K101553
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Hartlepool, 22 July 1979
At the same spotRef 197917G100457
Slight
Car crash on the A178 in Hartlepool, 21 November 1988
At the same spotRef 198817K102137
Serious
Car crash on the A178 in Hartlepool, 24 May 1992
10 m awayRef 199217K100820
Slight
Bus crash on the A178 in Hartlepool, 9 May 1998
10 m awayRef 199817H100177
Slight
Car crash on the A178 in Hartlepool, 27 January 1979
14 m awayRef 197917G100062
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki EN 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 39, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki EN 125)
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 2007170H10577 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hartlepool road accident statistics for 2007.