A167 crash in Darlington on 18 January 2007 at 17:30 involving a Ford KA
Two Ford KA cars and a Seat Cordoba were involved in a crash on the A167 in Darlington at 17:30 on Thursday 18 January 2007. The 38-year-old male driver of the Seat Cordoba was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jan 2007
- Thursday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford KA and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.52212, longitude -1.55888, 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
- 200711DJ02680
- 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
- Roundabout
- 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
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 6280
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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 July 1998.
Slight
Car crash on the A167 in Darlington, 12 July 1998
At the same spotRef 1998110DJ2015
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A167 in Darlington, 7 April 2006
At the same spotRef 200611DJ10380
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on the A167 in Darlington, 24 May 2019
2 m awayRef 2019110846788
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A1157 in Darlington, 15 January 1992
10 m awayRef 1992112DJ6794
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A167 in Darlington, 16 December 2000
10 m awayRef 200011DJ33750
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A167 in Darlington, 18 January 2020
13 m awayRef 2020110922500
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 3: Seat Cordoba
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Seat Cordoba)
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 200711DJ02680 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 2007.