A172 crash in Middlesbrough on 15 April 2012 at 16:45 involving a Smart Forfour
A Smart Forfour and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough at 16:45 on Sunday 15 April 2012. The 18-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Apr 2012
- Sunday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Smart Forfour and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.56129, longitude -1.22373, in the TS4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Middlesbrough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Longlands & Beechwood, Middlesbrough, TS4 2RD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Middlesbrough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012170M10962
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 172
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 March 2018.
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 11 March 2018
4 m awayRef 2018170M10948
Slight
Car crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 27 June 2003
8 m awayRef 2003170M12043
Slight
Car crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 20 December 1979
8 m awayRef 197917E101491
Slight
Daewoo Lanos crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 24 May 2010
8 m awayRef 2010170M11120
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 31 August 2008
8 m awayRef 2008170M12378
Slight
Talbot Samba crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 21 February 1990
8 m awayRef 199017L100267
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Smart Forfour
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 18, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2012170M10962 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.