Unclassified road crash in Middlesbrough TS7 on 31 December 2009 at 17:00 involving a BMW X5
A BMW X5 and a Land Rover Freelander were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough at 17:00 on Thursday 31 December 2009. A 69-year-old male passenger in the BMW X5, a 6-year-old male passenger in the BMW X5 and a 71-year-old female passenger in the BMW X5 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2009
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW X5 and Land Rover Freelander
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.52736, longitude -1.17006, in the TS7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Middlesbrough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ormesby, Redcar and Cleveland, TS7 0JY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009170M33129
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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 serious injury crash on 2 March 2004.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 2 March 2004
At the same spotRef 2004170M30644
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Talbot Samba crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 22 February 1993
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW X5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW X5)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW X5)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW X5)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2009170M33129 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.