Teesside’s ten deadliest road junctions can today be revealed by the Gazette.
Topping the list of killer junctions are the point at which Flatts Lane joins Middlesbrough Road, in Redcar and Cleveland, and the meeting of Borough Road and West Terrace, in Middlesbrough.
Each have been the scene of four road accidents since 2005 where those involved were either killed or seriously injured.
The list was compiled by our data team using Government statistics covering he period 2005-2013.
The accidents are all ones which resulted in serious injury or death.
The full top ten is:
1. West Terrace, North Ormesby, Middlesbrough
2. Middlesbrough Road, A171, from Guisborough to Nunthorpe Redcar and Cleveland
3. A177 Durham Road. Stockton
4. A66, Middlesbrough
5. Lobster Road, Redcar
6. A66, Long Newton
7. Darlington Back Lane, Stockton
8. Durham Lane, Eaglescliffe
9. Thames Road, Billingham
10. Southfield Road, Middlesbrough
In October last year a woman died and a man was airlifted to hospital with serious leg and chest injuries following a crash on the A177 Durham Road - number three on the list.
Police and other emergency services were called to the collision near to Thorpe Larches. The crash involved a silver Ford Fiesta car and a flat-bed truck carrying coal.
The woman, who was in her fifties and was from the Durham area, died at the scene.
In August last year the A66 in Middlesbrough - four on the list - claimed the life motorcyclist in an accident.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene following the smash near the Riverside Park/Cannon Park turn-off of the Newport Interchange.
Also in August last year, an eight-year-old boy was badly hurt after he was hit by a black VW Golf in Middlesbrough’s Southfield Road - number 10 on the list.
The boy was taken to James Cook University Hospital for treatment suffering a broken arm, a broken leg and facial injuries.
A new £12m junction built to improve the A66 blackspot at Long Newton - number six on the list - opened in May 2008 after a hard-fought campaign by local residents, the parish council and the then Stockton South Labour MP Dari Taylor.
The interchange was designed to eradicate a deathtrap junction which had seen more than 200 people involved in serious or fatal accidents there since 1995.
Nora Rosser, Long Newton parish councillor and member of RAID - Residents Against Interchange Delay - described it as “a joyous day” when the junction was opened to traffic.
Dari Taylor, who had pledged to help bring the junction to the village, said it was “a great achievement for Long Newton “ which had “had to put up with so much”.
In 2006, when the Highways Agency announced the deathtrap junction was finally set to be improved local mum-of-two Rowena Fawcett was among those celebrating.
Rowena, whose daughter Jessica attends St Mary’s school in Long Newton , suffered a terrifying close call at the junction when she was shunted from behind, almost into oncoming traffic.
Rowena, who had her daughter and eight-month baby, Natasha, in the car at the time, was still too scared to cross the junction at peak times more than a year later.
She told the Gazette: “I welcome anything that’s going to improve this road. I just don’t feel safe using that junction with my children in the car anymore.”
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