A689 crash in Hartlepool on 24 November 2014 at 10:54 involving a Piaggio PX125 motorcycle
A Piaggio PX125 motorcycle and a Volkswagen Caddy van were involved in a crash on the A689 in Hartlepool at 10:54 on Monday 24 November 2014. The 49-year-old male rider of the Piaggio PX125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Nov 2014
- Monday, 10:54
- Vehicles
- 2
- Piaggio PX125 and Volkswagen Caddy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.65801, longitude -1.22198, 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 5EF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hartlepool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014170H11544
- 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 27 April 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A689 in Hartlepool, 27 April 1989
1 m awayRef 198917K100848
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the A689 in Hartlepool, 1 August 1990
1 m awayRef 199017K101435
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A689 in Hartlepool, 7 January 1989
1 m awayRef 198917K100058
Slight
Car crash on the A689 in Hartlepool, 2 November 1990
1 m awayRef 199017K102066
Slight
Kia Rio crash on the A689 in Hartlepool, 23 July 2023
8 m awayRef 2023170H10613
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A689 in Hartlepool, 10 August 2004
9 m awayRef 2004170H11544
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Piaggio PX125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Caddy
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 49, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio PX125)
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 2014170H11544 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.