Serious unclassified road crash in Middlesbrough TS3 on 16 February 2015 at 17:25 involving an LDV 400 Series van
An LDV 400 Series van and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough at 17:25 on Monday 16 February 2015. The 15-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Feb 2015
- Monday, 17:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- LDV 400 Series and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.57049, longitude -1.20936, in the TS3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Middlesbrough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central, Middlesbrough, TS4 2DA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Middlesbrough
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015170M20435
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 December 2018.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 24 December 2018
6 m awayRef 2018170M22338
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 12 June 1987
6 m awayRef 198717L200650
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 21 February 1998
6 m awayRef 199817M200151
Serious
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 7 January 1996
6 m awayRef 199617M200023
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 6 October 1996
6 m awayRef 199617M200882
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 29 April 2012
9 m awayRef 2012170M21192
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: LDV 400 Series
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle, engine size unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 15, motorcyclist (engine size unknown), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 2015170M20435 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 2015.