Unclassified road crash in Redcar and Cleveland TS12 on 5 August 2018 at 18:30 involving a Skoda Rapid
A Skoda Rapid and a Land Rover Discovery were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redcar and Cleveland at 18:30 on Sunday 5 August 2018. The 23-year-old male driver of the Skoda Rapid was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Aug 2018
- Sunday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Rapid and Land Rover Discovery
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.58151, longitude -0.9785, in the TS12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Saltburn-by-the-Sea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Saltburn, Redcar and Cleveland, TS12 1BJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Redcar and Cleveland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018170L41108
- Council area
- Redcar and Cleveland
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 October 2017.
Serious
Kawasaki KLZ1000 crash on an unclassified road in Redcar and Cleveland, 29 October 2017
4 m awayRef 2017170L41277
Slight
Car crash on the A174 in Redcar and Cleveland, 10 January 1985
8 m awayRef 198517M300026
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A174 in Redcar and Cleveland, 27 May 1988
8 m awayRef 198817M300571
Slight
Car crash on the A174 in Redcar and Cleveland, 14 February 1984
8 m awayRef 198417M300149
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A174 in Redcar and Cleveland, 25 May 1983
8 m awayRef 198317M300531
Slight
Van crash on the A174 in Redcar and Cleveland, 12 December 1979
8 m awayRef 197917F201667
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Rapid
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Discovery
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 2,720 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Rapid)
- 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 2018170L41108 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.