A167 crash in Darlington on 22 December 2007 at 23:00 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the A167 in Darlington at 23:00 on Saturday 22 December 2007. A 61-year-old male passenger in the Ford Escort was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2007
- Saturday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.53899, longitude -1.55159, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200711DJ20100
- 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
- Give way or uncontrolled
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 14 January 2008.
Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A167 in Darlington, 14 January 2008
At the same spotRef 200811SJ00848
Slight
Optare crash on the A167 in Darlington, 1 November 2016
4 m awayRef 2016110129095
Serious
Seat Leon crash on the A167 in Darlington, 4 November 2021
9 m awayRef 2021111106176
Slight
Vauxhall Mokka crash on the A167 in Darlington, 16 September 2025
10 m awayRef 2025111643647
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A167 in Darlington, 26 June 2000
10 m awayRef 200011DJ17800
Slight
Bus crash on the A167 in Darlington, 2 November 2010
10 m awayRef 201011SJ26350
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200711DJ20100 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.