C road crash in Middlesbrough TS1 on 20 December 2012 at 16:50 involving a Land Rover Discovery
A Land Rover Discovery, a Volvo S40 and a Skoda Octavia taxi were involved in a crash on a C road in Middlesbrough at 16:50 on Thursday 20 December 2012. A 22-year-old male passenger in the Skoda Octavia taxi and a 71-year-old male passenger in the Volvo S40 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2012
- Thursday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 3
- Land Rover Discovery and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.5729, longitude -1.23604, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012170M13312
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 February 2007.
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 6 February 2007
5 m awayRef 2007170M10377
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1272 in Middlesbrough, 17 March 1994
15 m awayRef 199417M100281
Slight
Mitsubishi Colt crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 9 December 2009
17 m awayRef 2009170M12909
Slight
Seat Ateca crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 15 May 2021
19 m awayRef 2021170M10671
Serious
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 28 December 2013
25 m awayRef 2013170M12823
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 11 August 2011
27 m awayRef 2011170M12821
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Discovery
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,720 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo S40
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 3: Skoda Octavia
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Skoda Octavia)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volvo S40)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2012170M13312 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.