Unclassified road crash in Darlington DL3 on 18 December 2017 at 11:55 involving a MAN bus
A MAN bus crashed on an unclassified road in Darlington at 11:55 on Monday 18 December 2017. A 66-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2017
- Monday, 11:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- MAN
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.53889, longitude -1.59088, in the DL3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Darlington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cockerton, Darlington, DL3 0DR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Darlington
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017110260771
- Council area
- Darlington
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
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, 24 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 October 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Darlington, 21 October 1988
24 m awayRef 1988118DJ0619
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Darlington, 29 August 2025
29 m awayRef 2025111635842
Slight
Rover 45 crash on an unclassified road in Darlington, 20 August 2010
31 m awayRef 201011SJ20020
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Darlington, 19 May 1992
32 m awayRef 1992112DJ7575
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Darlington, 16 August 1993
33 m awayRef 1993113DJ0258
Slight
Austin Morris Maxi crash on a C road in Darlington, 4 January 1992
33 m awayRef 1992112DJ6720
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MAN
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,816 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Gas
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 66, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (MAN)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing 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 2017110260771 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.