Serious A174 crash in Middlesbrough on 24 November 2018 at 12:10 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on the A174 in Middlesbrough at 12:10 on Saturday 24 November 2018. A 79-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry slip road with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Nov 2018
- Saturday, 12:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.53155, longitude -1.23976, in the TS5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hemlington, Middlesbrough, TS8 9HB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Middlesbrough
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018170M12068
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 174
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, 26 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 April 2011.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A174 in Middlesbrough, 3 April 2011
26 m awayRef 2011170M30881
Serious
Nissan Terrano crash on the B1365 in Middlesbrough, 27 February 2003
26 m awayRef 2003170M30713
Slight
Mazda MX-5 crash on the A174 in Middlesbrough, 1 March 2007
26 m awayRef 2007170M30657
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B1365 in Middlesbrough, 22 January 2003
36 m awayRef 2003170M30393
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A174 in Middlesbrough, 30 November 1996
36 m awayRef 199617M301090
Slight
Car crash on the B1365 in Middlesbrough, 12 November 1997
58 m awayRef 199717M300941
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 79, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2018170M12068 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 2018.