Serious A167 crash in Darlington on 19 December 2016 at 11:05 involving a VDL SB200 bus
A VDL SB200 bus crashed on the A167 in Darlington at 11:05 on Monday 19 December 2016. A 6-year-old female passenger was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Dec 2016
- Monday, 11:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- VDL SB200
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.52098, longitude -1.56005, in the DL3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Darlington. It is one of the crashes that make up the College, Darlington, DL3 7HG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Darlington
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016110142171
- Council area
- Darlington
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a fatal crash on 20 June 2002.
Fatal
Rover 200 Series crash on the A167 in Darlington, 20 June 2002
9 m awayRef 200211DJ17750
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A167 in Darlington, 19 September 2001
14 m awayRef 200111DJ26550
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A167 in Darlington, 11 April 2006
24 m awayRef 200611DJ10280
Serious
Iveco-Ford crash on the A66 in Darlington, 8 February 1990
33 m awayRef 1990110DJ2611
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A167 in Darlington, 2 May 1998
49 m awayRef 1998110DJ1401
Slight
Car crash on the A167 in Darlington, 18 January 1982
53 m awayRef 1982112DJ0031
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: VDL SB200
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,700 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 6, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (VDL SB200)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing passenger
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
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 2016110142171 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 2016.