A biker has died and a passenger left with life-changing injuries after an early-morning crash in Ferryhill.
Police and paramedics were called to the A167 just after 1am today (August 5) after a rider and pillion passenger fell from a Yamaha 600cc motorbike.
Sadly, the rider, a 38-year-old man, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The pillion passenger, a woman in her twenties, was left with life-changing injuries and was taken to the University Hospital of North Durham for treatment.
The bike is believed to have been travelling northbound from Chilton to Ferryhill at the time of the incident.
The road was shut both northbound and southbound between the Dean Road junction and the Jet Garage, in Chilton, for several hours following the crash but has since reopened.
The crash was one of two overnight in County Durham, the second being on the B6532 in Edmondsley.
Durham Police has now launched an investigation, asking any witnesses or anyone with dashcam or CCTV footage of the bike before the crash to get in touch.
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If you can help, please contact police’s serious collision investigation unit by email at SCIU@durham.police.uk quoting incident number 12 of August 5.
A North East Ambulance Service spokesperson said: "We were called just after 1am this morning (August 5) to reports that a rider and pillion passenger had fallen from a motorbike on the A167 in Ferryhill.
"We dispatched three ambulance crews, a specialist paramedic, a doctor in a rapid response car and a duty officer who treated one patient with a suspected pelvic fracture before conveying to hospital."
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