A167 crash in County Durham on 30 March 2015 at 11:40 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on the A167 in County Durham at 11:40 on Monday 30 March 2015. The 48-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Vectra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Mar 2015
- Monday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.75911, longitude -1.59197, in the DH1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brandon, County Durham, DH7 8JX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201511ND06495
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 167
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 May 2017.
Slight
Renault Trucks Master crash on the A167 in County Durham, 19 May 2017
2 m awayRef 2017110186634
Slight
Subaru Impreza crash on the A167 in County Durham, 30 November 2005
6 m awayRef 200511BD28130
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A167 in County Durham, 5 August 2023
10 m awayRef 2023111347450
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A167 in County Durham, 27 September 2010
34 m awayRef 201011ND23200
Serious
Peugeot 207 crash on the A167 in County Durham, 9 November 2011
52 m awayRef 201111ND28561
Slight
Yamaha Ybr 125 crash on the A167 in County Durham, 6 October 2010
111 m awayRef 201011ND24620
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 201511ND06495 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the County Durham road accident statistics for 2015.