A167 crash in Darlington on 1 March 1998 at 20:02 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra hit a pedestrian on the A167 in Darlington at 20:02 on Sunday 1 March 1998. A 30-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Mar 1998
- Sunday, 20:02
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.52229, longitude -1.55858, in the DL1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Darlington.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998110DJ0807
- Council area
- Darlington
- Police force
- Durham
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 167
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- A
- Second road number
- 167
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a fatal crash on 2 February 2014.
Fatal
Skoda Octavia crash on the A167 in Darlington, 2 February 2014
8 m awayRef 201411SJ02154
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A1157 in Darlington, 22 May 1993
10 m awayRef 1993113DJ9800
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1157 in Darlington, 18 February 1999
10 m awayRef 1999110DJ0448
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A167 in Darlington, 7 February 2009
10 m awayRef 200911SJ03229
Slight
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Slight
Hyundai i20 crash on the A167 in Darlington, 28 October 2020
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 1998110DJ0807 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 1998.