A66 crash in Middlesbrough on 28 May 2009 at 16:30 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on the A66 in Middlesbrough at 16:30 on Thursday 28 May 2009. The 56-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 May 2009
- Thursday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.56809, longitude -1.25709, in the TS5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Middlesbrough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newport, Middlesbrough, TS1 4QT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Middlesbrough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009170M11219
- 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
- Dual 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 May 2011.
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 30 May 2011
10 m awayRef 2011170M11321
Slight
Leyland Cars Mini crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 9 November 1990
28 m awayRef 199017L101415
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 18 October 2003
32 m awayRef 2003170M13543
Slight
ERF crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 8 December 1995
36 m awayRef 199517M101151
Slight
Car crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 19 August 1989
45 m awayRef 198917L101017
Slight
Car crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 11 December 1987
45 m awayRef 198717L101410
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 2009170M11219 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 2009.