Serious unclassified road crash in Middlesbrough TS3 on 15 December 2023 at 03:45 involving a bicycle
A bicycle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough at 03:45 on Friday 15 December 2023. A 33-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Dec 2023
- Friday, 03:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.565, longitude -1.20697, in the TS3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Middlesbrough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Berwick Hills & Pallister, Middlesbrough, TS3 8LL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023170M22003
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 July 1988.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 1 July 1988
19 m awayRef 198817L200854
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 12 December 2025
23 m awayRef 202517M215725
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Middlesbrough, 19 April 1986
26 m awayRef 198617L200431
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 23 January 1988
28 m awayRef 198817L200115
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 28 April 2022
33 m awayRef 2022170M20692
Slight
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Middlesbrough, 31 March 2003
33 m awayRef 2003170M21023
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 33, hit by vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- 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 2023170M22003 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 2023.