A68 crash in Darlington on 29 March 2002 at 16:15 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto hit a pedestrian on the A68 in Darlington at 16:15 on Friday 29 March 2002. A 13-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Mar 2002
- Friday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.53872, longitude -1.57663, in the DL3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Darlington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pierremont, Darlington, DL3 9HS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200211DJ09470
- Council area
- Darlington
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 68
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 May 2011.
Slight
Mini One crash on the A68 in Darlington, 16 May 2011
10 m awayRef 201111SJ11371
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A68 in Darlington, 8 December 1999
20 m awayRef 1999110DJ3269
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A68 in Darlington, 16 April 2007
22 m awayRef 200711DJ06800
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A68 in Darlington, 15 September 2004
36 m awayRef 200411DJ23420
Serious
Suzuki Swace crash on the A68 in Darlington, 16 September 2025
40 m awayRef 2025111644003
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Darlington, 3 November 2014
42 m awayRef 201411SJ26184
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,108 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- 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 200211DJ09470 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 2002.