A171 crash in Middlesbrough on 19 December 2015 at 19:15 involving an Audi A8
An Audi A8 and a Nissan Almera were involved in a crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough at 19:15 on Saturday 19 December 2015. The 47-year-old male driver of the Audi A8 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2015
- Saturday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A8 and Nissan Almera
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.55245, longitude -1.18175, in the TS3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Middlesbrough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Park End & Beckfield, Middlesbrough, TS3 0PQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Middlesbrough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015170M23185
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 171
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 September 2013.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough, 15 September 2013
13 m awayRef 2013170M21953
Slight
Car crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough, 27 January 1988
19 m awayRef 198817L200141
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough, 23 November 1979
19 m awayRef 197917F101571
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough, 30 April 1997
26 m awayRef 199717M100365
Slight
Car crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough, 10 August 1982
27 m awayRef 198217F100959
Slight
Car crash on the A171 in Middlesbrough, 10 December 1991
36 m awayRef 199117L201401
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A8
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,967 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A8)
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 2015170M23185 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.