A178 crash in Middlesbrough on 23 April 2007 at 09:35 involving a Rover 400 Series
A Rover 400 Series and a Fiat Punto were involved in a crash on the A178 in Middlesbrough at 09:35 on Monday 23 April 2007. The 28-year-old male driver of the Rover 400 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Apr 2007
- Monday, 09:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 400 Series and Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.57956, longitude -1.23646, in the TS2 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
- 2007170M11227
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 16 December 1996.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 16 December 1996
At the same spotRef 199617M101142
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 1 August 1983
At the same spotRef 198317L100864
Slight
Piaggio PX125 crash on the A178 in Middlesbrough, 8 August 2005
At the same spotRef 2005170M12985
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 30 January 1980
At the same spotRef 198017E100119
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 16 April 1982
At the same spotRef 198217E100425
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 19 May 1983
At the same spotRef 198317L100596
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 400 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,589 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 400 Series)
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 2007170M11227 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 2007.