A178 crash in Middlesbrough on 24 September 2012 at 16:40 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra hit a pedestrian on the A178 in Middlesbrough at 16:40 on Monday 24 September 2012. A 62-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Sep 2012
- Monday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.57955, longitude -1.23607, in the TS2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Middlesbrough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central, Middlesbrough, TS1 1RP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Middlesbrough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012170M12532
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 178
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 December 1990.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A178 in Middlesbrough, 24 December 1990
10 m awayRef 199017L101618
Slight
Rover Mini crash on the A178 in Middlesbrough, 10 November 1990
15 m awayRef 199017L101397
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A178 in Middlesbrough, 11 January 1996
15 m awayRef 199617M100031
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A178 in Middlesbrough, 20 December 1994
17 m awayRef 199417M101307
Slight
Mazda 6 crash on the A178 in Middlesbrough, 24 April 2004
17 m awayRef 2004170M11364
Slight
Car crash on the A178 in Middlesbrough, 18 May 1994
17 m awayRef 199417M100474
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 62, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2012170M12532 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.