Serious unclassified road crash in Middlesbrough TS5 on 7 December 2018 at 12:04 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough at 12:04 on Friday 7 December 2018. A 59-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Dec 2018
- Friday, 12:04
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.55589, longitude -1.26382, in the TS5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Middlesbrough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ayresome, Middlesbrough, TS5 4PZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Middlesbrough
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018170M12208
- Council area
- Middlesbrough
- Police force
- Cleveland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 31 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 January 1984.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 10 January 1984
31 m awayRef 198417L100020
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 16 December 1984
31 m awayRef 198417L101448
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 8 September 1982
40 m awayRef 198217E100942
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 1 January 2005
41 m awayRef 2005170M10145
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 16 June 1981
49 m awayRef 198117E100655
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 27 March 1988
49 m awayRef 198817L100451
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 59, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- 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 2018170M12208 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.