Unclassified road crash in Darlington DL3 on 18 September 2003 at 17:15 involving a Renault Laguna
A car, a Renault Laguna and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Darlington at 17:15 on Thursday 18 September 2003. The 35-year-old male driver of the Renault Laguna was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Sep 2003
- Thursday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 3
- Renault Laguna and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.53268, longitude -1.57098, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Darlington
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200311DJ26420
- Council area
- Darlington
- Police force
- Durham
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 May 2014.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Darlington, 27 May 2014
9 m awayRef 201411SJ13204
Serious
Sym Jet crash on an unclassified road in Darlington, 29 July 2009
10 m awayRef 200911SJ19539
Slight
Austin Morris Maxi crash on an unclassified road in Darlington, 21 November 1990
10 m awayRef 1990110DJ4313
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Darlington, 18 January 1999
10 m awayRef 1999110DJ0151
Slight
Skoda Citigo crash on an unclassified road in Darlington, 31 October 2025
29 m awayRef 2025111663381
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Darlington, 10 January 1990
30 m awayRef 1990110DJ2434
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 3: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Laguna)
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 200311DJ26420 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 2003.