Unclassified road crash in Middlesbrough TS8 on 10 November 2015 at 10:20 involving an Alexander Dennis bus
An Alexander Dennis bus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough at 10:20 on Tuesday 10 November 2015. A 4-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Nov 2015
- Tuesday, 10:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Alexander Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.52548, longitude -1.23948, in the TS8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Middlesbrough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hemlington, Middlesbrough, TS8 9HB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015170M32735
- 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
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 25 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 May 1981.
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 22 May 1981
25 m awayRef 198117E200563
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 4 July 1983
49 m awayRef 198317L100764
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 30 June 1990
62 m awayRef 199017L200823
Serious
Porsche 924 crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 21 August 1992
89 m awayRef 199217M305187
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 30 January 1985
92 m awayRef 198517L200116
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 6 October 1988
98 m awayRef 198817L201278
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Alexander Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,696 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Alexander Dennis)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2015170M32735 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.