Skip to main content
CrashStats

Unclassified road crash in Darlington DL1 on 31 December 1997 at 16:10 involving a Volkswagen minibus

A Volkswagen minibus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Darlington at 16:10 on Wednesday 31 December 1997. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
31 Dec 1997
Wednesday, 16:10
Vehicles
1
Volkswagen
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.52434, longitude -1.55562, in the DL1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Darlington.

Map of where the crash happened in Darlington

Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.

  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1997117DJ0163
Council area
Darlington
Police force
Durham

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
One way street or slip road
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
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 May 1990.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Volkswagen

    Minibus or motor caravan

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    33 years
    Engine capacity
    1,970 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    15 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen)

    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 1997117DJ0163 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Darlington road accident statistics for 1997.