A689 crash in Hartlepool on 7 November 2012 at 17:30 involving a Mazda MX-5
A Mazda MX-5 crashed on the A689 in Hartlepool at 17:30 on Wednesday 7 November 2012. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Nov 2012
- Wednesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda MX-5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.66463, longitude -1.21985, in the TS25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hartlepool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rossmere, Hartlepool, TS25 5EF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hartlepool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012170H11372
- Council area
- Hartlepool
- Police force
- Cleveland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 689
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 November 2015.
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the A689 in Hartlepool, 14 November 2015
7 m awayRef 2015170H11265
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A689 in Hartlepool, 20 December 2010
9 m awayRef 2010170H11480
Serious
Toyota Celica crash on the A689 in Hartlepool, 21 October 1992
11 m awayRef 199217H105239
Serious
Car crash on the A689 in Hartlepool, 23 May 1982
11 m awayRef 198217G100272
Serious
Peugeot 208 crash on the A689 in Hartlepool, 4 May 2021
13 m awayRef 2021170H10371
Slight
Car crash on the A689 in Hartlepool, 28 September 1982
13 m awayRef 198217G100510
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda MX-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda MX-5)
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 2012170H11372 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hartlepool road accident statistics for 2012.