A689 crash in Hartlepool on 19 November 2014 at 10:00 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on the A689 in Hartlepool at 10:00 on Wednesday 19 November 2014. A 21-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Nov 2014
- Wednesday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.6695, longitude -1.21083, in the TS25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hartlepool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rossmere, Hartlepool, TS25 1PD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hartlepool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014170H11274
- Council area
- Hartlepool
- Police force
- Cleveland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 689
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 May 2000.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A689 in Hartlepool, 11 May 2000
7 m awayRef 200017H100080
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A689 in Hartlepool, 31 January 2005
8 m awayRef 2005170H10205
Fatal
Fiat Punto crash on the A689 in Hartlepool, 23 January 2008
16 m awayRef 2008170H10138
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the A689 in Hartlepool, 18 November 2015
25 m awayRef 2015170H11205
Slight
Car crash on the A689 in Hartlepool, 1 July 1989
26 m awayRef 198917K101198
Slight
Van crash on the A689 in Hartlepool, 9 October 1986
30 m awayRef 198617J100567
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 2014170H11274 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hartlepool road accident statistics for 2014.