Unclassified road crash in Redcar and Cleveland TS12 on 27 October 2018 at 23:35 involving a Ford Tourneo taxi
A Ford Tourneo taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Redcar and Cleveland at 23:35 on Saturday 27 October 2018. A 24-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Oct 2018
- Saturday, 23:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Tourneo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.561, longitude -0.98838, in the TS12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Skelton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Skelton West, Redcar and Cleveland, TS12 2HG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018170L11088
- Council area
- Redcar and Cleveland
- Police force
- Cleveland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 37 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 March 2000.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A173 in Redcar and Cleveland, 30 March 2000
37 m awayRef 200017L100079
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A173 in Redcar and Cleveland, 15 May 1982
37 m awayRef 198217F300537
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A173 in Redcar and Cleveland, 21 April 2001
37 m awayRef 200117L500091
Slight
Car crash on the A173 in Redcar and Cleveland, 31 May 1989
40 m awayRef 198917M100561
Slight
Car crash on the A173 in Redcar and Cleveland, 24 December 1979
40 m awayRef 197917F301748
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A173 in Redcar and Cleveland, 14 January 1997
40 m awayRef 199717L100039
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Tourneo
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Tourneo)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018170L11088 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Redcar and Cleveland road accident statistics for 2018.