Serious A167 crash in Darlington on 27 March 2004 at 20:00 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo hit a pedestrian on the A167 in Darlington at 20:00 on Saturday 27 March 2004. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Mar 2004
- Saturday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.5363, longitude -1.5527, in the DL1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Darlington. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Road, Darlington, DL3 0PY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Darlington
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200411DJ08780
- Council area
- Darlington
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 167
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 November 1994.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A167 in Darlington, 17 November 1994
At the same spotRef 1994114DJ2852
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A167 in Darlington, 27 June 2000
At the same spotRef 200011DJ17140
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A167 in Darlington, 12 August 1998
At the same spotRef 1998110DJ2243
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A167 in Darlington, 12 December 2003
At the same spotRef 200311DJ34590
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A167 in Darlington, 31 May 1996
At the same spotRef 1996116DJ5998
Slight
Daihatsu Fourtrak crash on the A167 in Darlington, 15 April 1997
At the same spotRef 1997117DJ0766
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 200411DJ08780 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 2004.