A167 crash in Darlington on 16 December 2003 at 14:00 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series hit a pedestrian on the A167 in Darlington at 14:00 on Tuesday 16 December 2003. A 35-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2003
- Tuesday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.52221, longitude -1.55842, in the DL1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Darlington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Park East, Darlington, DL1 1ND area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Darlington
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200311DJ34690
- Council area
- Darlington
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 167
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 January 2001.
Slight
Van crash on the A167 in Darlington, 29 January 2001
At the same spotRef 200111DJ03110
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A167 in Darlington, 9 September 2025
6 m awayRef 2025111639576
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A167 in Darlington, 7 February 2009
10 m awayRef 200911SJ03229
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A167 in Darlington, 26 July 2001
10 m awayRef 200111DJ21700
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1157 in Darlington, 18 February 1999
10 m awayRef 1999110DJ0448
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A167 in Darlington, 1 March 1998
14 m awayRef 1998110DJ0807
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 35, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 200311DJ34690 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.