Police are looking into an incident that saw a driver make off from the scene after flipping their car over on a major County Durham road. 

Officers from Durham Police attended the A167 near Plawsworth on Wednesday (April 19) at around 6pm following reports of a one vehicle collision.

At the time, the North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) said that they had been stood down from the incident. 

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A NEAS spokesperson said, "We received a call at 18:03 to a road traffic incident on the A167 in Durham near the Red Lion Pub. 

"Off duty paramedics were at the scene. 

"We dispatched a rapid response paramedic, a clinical team leader and an emergency ambulance and all our teams stood down at the scene."

However, the police have now confirmed that a driver is believed to have collided with a road sign, which caused the vehicle to overturn, and then made off from the scene.

Enquiries are now ongoing, according to the Durham Police.