B6302 crash in County Durham on 13 July 1979 at 15:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B6302 in County Durham at 15:30 on Friday 13 July 1979. A 6-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jul 1979
- Friday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.77076, longitude -1.70308, in the DH7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Esh Winning.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979119BD0893
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6302
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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 1 August 1979.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 1 August 1979
At the same spotRef 1979119BD0902
Slight
Car crash on the B6302 in County Durham, 19 August 1979
At the same spotRef 1979119BD0958
Slight
Daihatsu Charade crash on the B6302 in County Durham, 4 March 1993
10 m awayRef 1993113BD0425
Serious
Car crash on the B6302 in County Durham, 28 November 2025
15 m awayRef 2025111675623
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the B6302 in County Durham, 13 September 1996
20 m awayRef 1996116BD8174
Serious
Car crash on the B6302 in County Durham, 25 January 1986
22 m awayRef 1986116BD0091
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 6, 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 1979119BD0893 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.