A178 crash in Middlesbrough on 5 April 2010 at 02:34 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on the A178 in Middlesbrough at 02:34 on Monday 5 April 2010. A 34-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Apr 2010
- Monday, 02:34
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.57946, longitude -1.23537, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Middlesbrough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010170M10840
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 July 1998.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A178 in Middlesbrough, 14 July 1998
10 m awayRef 199817M100425
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A178 in Middlesbrough, 27 April 2008
10 m awayRef 2008170M10948
Slight
Car crash on the A178 in Middlesbrough, 2 June 1989
14 m awayRef 198917L100662
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 15 September 1985
14 m awayRef 198517L200942
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the A178 in Middlesbrough, 22 August 1998
20 m awayRef 199817M100544
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 31 December 1979
22 m awayRef 197917E201547
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
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
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 34, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- 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 2010170M10840 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 2010.