C road crash in Middlesbrough TS5 on 20 December 2017 at 12:30 involving a Toyota Corolla taxi
A Toyota Corolla taxi and a BMW 5 Series were involved in a crash on a C road in Middlesbrough at 12:30 on Wednesday 20 December 2017. A 60-year-old female passenger in the Toyota Corolla taxi was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2017
- Wednesday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Corolla and BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.55969, longitude -1.24287, in the TS5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Middlesbrough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Park, Middlesbrough, TS5 6QT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Middlesbrough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017170M12367
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 June 2008.
Slight
Optare Metrorider crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 7 June 2008
5 m awayRef 2008170M11408
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 19 February 1995
12 m awayRef 199517M100180
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 26 September 1981
12 m awayRef 198117E101050
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 12 October 1984
19 m awayRef 198417L101148
Slight
Ford Orion crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 25 December 1990
19 m awayRef 199017L101640
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 27 April 1990
19 m awayRef 199017L100541
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 60, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Corolla)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2017170M12367 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 2017.