A1150 crash in Darlington on 20 October 2011 at 08:45 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra and a Ford Transit Connect van were involved in a crash on the A1150 in Darlington at 08:45 on Thursday 20 October 2011. The 40-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit Connect van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Oct 2011
- Thursday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Vectra and Ford Transit Connect
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.55037, longitude -1.54374, in the DL1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Darlington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Harrowgate Hill, Darlington, DL1 3DB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Darlington
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201111SJ26201
- Council area
- Darlington
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1150
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 January 1997.
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A1150 in Darlington, 21 January 1997
10 m awayRef 1997117DJ0092
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A1150 in Darlington, 19 October 1991
14 m awayRef 1991111DJ6210
Slight
Optare Metrorider crash on the A1150 in Darlington, 29 June 2001
32 m awayRef 200111DJ18890
Slight
Lorry crash on the A1150 in Darlington, 23 December 1985
32 m awayRef 1985115DJ0885
Serious
Car crash on the A1150 in Darlington, 10 March 1986
32 m awayRef 1986116DJ0150
Slight
Bus crash on the A1150 in Darlington, 10 March 1984
32 m awayRef 1984114DJ0194
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit Connect)
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 201111SJ26201 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 2011.