C road crash in Middlesbrough TS3 on 1 December 2012 at 16:30 involving a Skoda Octavia taxi
A Skoda Octavia taxi hit a pedestrian on a C road in Middlesbrough at 16:30 on Saturday 1 December 2012. An 8-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 2012
- Saturday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Octavia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.56084, longitude -1.20227, in the TS3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Middlesbrough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Berwick Hills & Pallister, Middlesbrough, TS3 8LL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Middlesbrough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012170M23132
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 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
- Frost or ice
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, 13 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 February 1996.
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 5 February 1996
13 m awayRef 199617M200105
Slight
Bus crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough, 26 January 1980
18 m awayRef 198017F100107
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 27 November 2019
22 m awayRef 2019170M21799
Serious
Peugeot Speedfight crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 5 June 2005
22 m awayRef 2005170M21715
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 29 January 1988
22 m awayRef 198817L200157
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 30 April 2010
22 m awayRef 2010170M21670
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Octavia
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Skoda Octavia)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 2012170M23132 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.