A171 crash in Middlesbrough on 29 May 2010 at 23:15 involving a Vauxhall Vectra taxi
A Vauxhall Vectra taxi, a car and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough at 23:15 on Saturday 29 May 2010. The 38-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Vectra taxi and the 18-year-old male driver of the car were 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
- 29 May 2010
- Saturday, 23:15
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Vectra and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.56381, longitude -1.19144, in the TS3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Middlesbrough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Berwick Hills & Pallister, Middlesbrough, TS3 8LL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Middlesbrough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010170M11210
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 171
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 1998.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough, 17 December 1998
At the same spotRef 199817M200690
Slight
Car crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough, 22 August 1986
At the same spotRef 198617L200938
Slight
Car crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough, 8 December 1987
At the same spotRef 198717L201419
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 16 December 1981
At the same spotRef 198117F101588
Slight
Optare Metrorider crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough, 12 April 2006
At the same spotRef 2006170M11176
Serious
Skoda Octavia crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough, 29 November 2025
8 m awayRef 202517M115025
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2010170M11210 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.