A68 crash in Darlington on 29 November 2017 at 20:35 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on the A68 in Darlington at 20:35 on Wednesday 29 November 2017. The 22-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Nov 2017
- Wednesday, 20:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.5975, longitude -1.66396, in the DL2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Darlington
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017110253467
- Council area
- Darlington
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 68
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 February 2004.
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A68 in Darlington, 8 February 2004
15 m awayRef 200411DJ04370
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in Darlington, 2 January 1987
15 m awayRef 1987117DJ0008
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A68 in Darlington, 24 February 2001
20 m awayRef 200111DJ05760
Serious
Car crash on the A68 in Darlington, 31 December 1980
21 m awayRef 1980110DJ1042
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A68 in Darlington, 13 July 2016
26 m awayRef 2016110093088
Serious
Volvo V50 crash on the A68 in Darlington, 19 November 2021
31 m awayRef 2021111114104
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
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 2017110253467 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 2017.