Unclassified road crash in Darlington DL1 on 24 November 2019 at 17:50 involving a Hyundai i30
A Hyundai i30 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Darlington at 17:50 on Sunday 24 November 2019. A 16-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Nov 2019
- Sunday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Hyundai i30
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.52444, longitude -1.55376, in the DL1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Darlington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Park East, Darlington, DL1 1ND area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Darlington
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019110917140
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 12 May 1980.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Darlington, 12 May 1980
1 m awayRef 1980110DJ0376
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Darlington, 31 December 1985
10 m awayRef 1985115DJ0911
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on an unclassified road in Darlington, 17 June 2010
10 m awayRef 201011SJ15700
Slight
Skoda Rapid crash on an unclassified road in Darlington, 20 August 2016
12 m awayRef 2016110104748
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Darlington, 12 April 1993
20 m awayRef 1993113DJ9576
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Darlington, 30 August 1980
30 m awayRef 1980110DJ0686
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai i30
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,582 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Hyundai i30)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most 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 2019110917140 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 2019.