Serious unclassified road crash in Hartlepool TS24 on 26 September 2016 at 13:00 involving a Skoda Octavia taxi
A Skoda Octavia taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Hartlepool at 13:00 on Monday 26 September 2016. A 56-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Sep 2016
- Monday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Octavia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.69747, longitude -1.22833, in the TS24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hartlepool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Headland & Harbour, Hartlepool, TS24 8LB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hartlepool
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016170H10876
- Council area
- Hartlepool
- Police force
- Cleveland
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single 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
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 April 2010.
Slight
Kia Carens crash on an unclassified road in Hartlepool, 29 April 2010
6 m awayRef 2010170H10370
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Hartlepool, 16 May 1997
36 m awayRef 199717H100247
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Hartlepool, 19 November 1988
45 m awayRef 198817K102129
Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Hartlepool, 29 August 2010
46 m awayRef 2010170H10950
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on a C road in Hartlepool, 22 June 1994
46 m awayRef 199417H100315
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Hartlepool, 23 August 2022
56 m awayRef 2022170H10852
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Octavia
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 56, hit by vehicle 1 (Skoda Octavia)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 2016170H10876 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 2016.