Serious A172 crash in Middlesbrough on 16 May 2013 at 19:30 involving an Aprilia RS 125 motorcycle
An Aprilia RS 125 motorcycle crashed on the A172 in Middlesbrough at 19:30 on Thursday 16 May 2013. The 44-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 May 2013
- Thursday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Aprilia RS 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.50684, longitude -1.16144, in the TS7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Middlesbrough
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013170M30983
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 February 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the B1365 in Middlesbrough, 22 February 1981
17 m awayRef 198117E200223
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 31 August 2001
58 m awayRef 2001122430346
Serious
Lancia Delta crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 18 March 1995
85 m awayRef 199517M100435
Serious
Car crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 5 February 1984
95 m awayRef 198417L200130
Slight
Car crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 26 March 1983
97 m awayRef 198317L100361
Serious
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A172 in Middlesbrough, 23 May 2003
176 m awayRef 2003170M31623
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Aprilia RS 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 44, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Aprilia RS 125)
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 2013170M30983 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 2013.