A66 crash in Middlesbrough on 13 September 2012 at 01:04 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough at 01:04 on Thursday 13 September 2012. The 50-year-old male driver of the Toyota Yaris was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Sep 2012
- Thursday, 01:04
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Yaris and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.56163, longitude -1.27555, in the TS17 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newport, Middlesbrough, TS5 4AD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Middlesbrough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012170M12362
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 66
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 January 2009.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 21 January 2009
6 m awayRef 2009170M10109
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 28 October 2014
7 m awayRef 2014170M12404
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 29 November 2006
16 m awayRef 2006170M13496
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 4 April 2007
16 m awayRef 2007170M10887
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 19 May 2012
17 m awayRef 2012170M11332
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 24 September 2008
18 m awayRef 2008170M12348
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Yaris)
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 2012170M12362 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.