B6298 crash in County Durham on 31 August 1979 at 16:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B6298 in County Durham at 16:45 on Friday 31 August 1979. A 7-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 31 Aug 1979
- Friday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.71604, longitude -1.7485, in the DL15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crook.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979119AA0622
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6298
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 October 2004.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B6298 in County Durham, 13 October 2004
At the same spotRef 200411AA26360
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the B6298 in County Durham, 3 April 2019
8 m awayRef 2019110832000
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on the B6298 in County Durham, 15 March 2006
10 m awayRef 200611AB08310
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B6298 in County Durham, 25 June 2006
10 m awayRef 200611AB16280
Slight
Fiat Tipo crash on the B6298 in County Durham, 14 February 2004
10 m awayRef 200411AB05240
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the B6298 in County Durham, 9 January 1998
14 m awayRef 1998118AB0238
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1979119AA0622 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the County Durham road accident statistics for 1979.