A167 crash in County Durham on 4 July 2017 at 07:00 involving a VDL bus
A VDL bus crashed on the A167 in County Durham at 07:00 on Tuesday 4 July 2017. A 19-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jul 2017
- Tuesday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- VDL
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.65455, longitude -1.56221, in the DL17 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chilton, County Durham, DL17 0EZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017110206152
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 167
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 689
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- 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 9 March 2018.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A167 in County Durham, 9 March 2018
10 m awayRef 2018110278612
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A167 in County Durham, 26 September 2005
16 m awayRef 200511AL22400
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A167 in County Durham, 14 December 2025
20 m awayRef 2025111684179
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A167 in County Durham, 8 October 2003
21 m awayRef 200311AK28720
Serious
Audi A4 crash on the A689 in County Durham, 20 October 2018
28 m awayRef 2018110343155
Slight
Car crash on the A167 in County Durham, 14 July 1988
28 m awayRef 1988118AK0528
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: VDL
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,700 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (VDL)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated 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 2017110206152 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 2017.