Serious B1272 crash in Middlesbrough on 15 April 2012 at 03:35 involving a Yamaha YZF R125 motorcycle
A Yamaha YZF R125 motorcycle crashed on the B1272 in Middlesbrough at 03:35 on Sunday 15 April 2012. The 27-year-old male rider was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Apr 2012
- Sunday, 03:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha YZF R125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.56992, longitude -1.23885, in the TS1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Middlesbrough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central, Middlesbrough, TS1 3BB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Middlesbrough
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012170M10882
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1272
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 March 1979.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 23 March 1979
7 m awayRef 197917E100365
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 13 January 1979
7 m awayRef 197917E100038
Slight
Car crash on the B1272 in Middlesbrough, 19 April 1983
8 m awayRef 198317L100472
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B1267 in Middlesbrough, 11 January 2002
8 m awayRef 200217M100040
Serious
Car crash on the B1272 in Middlesbrough, 4 June 1989
8 m awayRef 198917L100672
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the B1272 in Middlesbrough, 3 March 1994
9 m awayRef 199417M100216
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha YZF R125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 27, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha YZF R125)
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 2012170M10882 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 2012.