A66 crash in Middlesbrough on 7 December 2016 at 18:00 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the A66 in Middlesbrough at 18:00 on Wednesday 7 December 2016. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2016
- Wednesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.57786, longitude -1.23132, in the TS1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Middlesbrough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central, Middlesbrough, TS1 3BB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016170M12796
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 66
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- A
- Second road number
- 172
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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 27 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 March 2013.
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Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 11 March 2013
27 m awayRef 2013170M10573
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Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 23 September 2022
33 m awayRef 2022170M11542
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Volkswagen Golf crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 16 December 2015
34 m awayRef 2015170M13145
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Ford Fiesta crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 21 May 2010
34 m awayRef 2010170M11080
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Citroen AX crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 16 March 1997
35 m awayRef 199717M100207
Slight
Rover 45 crash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, 23 September 2008
36 m awayRef 2008170M13288
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2016170M12796 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 2016.