B6278 crash in County Durham on 17 November 1981 at 12:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B6278 in County Durham at 12:00 on Tuesday 17 November 1981. A 16-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Nov 1981
- Tuesday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.75629, longitude -2.01162, in the DL13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981111AA0915
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6278
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 April 1991.
Slight
Leyland Cars Mini crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 9 April 1991
45 m awayRef 1991111AA5185
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 14 April 1991
51 m awayRef 1991111AB5149
Slight
Car crash on the B2678 in County Durham, 20 August 1987
158 m awayRef 1987117AA0636
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 19 February 1998
279 m awayRef 1998118AB0734
Serious
BMW R Series crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 24 July 2022
291 m awayRef 2022111224087
Serious
Car crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 18 September 1987
354 m awayRef 1987117AA0737
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 16, 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 1981111AA0915 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 1981.