Serious B6302 crash in County Durham on 18 August 1985 at 23:05 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B6302 in County Durham at 23:05 on Sunday 18 August 1985. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Aug 1985
- Sunday, 23:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.77031, longitude -1.70324, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985115BD0738
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 August 2002.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B6302 in County Durham, 18 August 2002
30 m awayRef 200211BD28810
Serious
Car crash on the B6302 in County Durham, 25 January 1986
30 m awayRef 1986116BD0091
Serious
Car crash on the B6302 in County Durham, 28 November 2025
41 m awayRef 2025111675623
Slight
Car crash on the B6302 in County Durham, 19 August 1979
51 m awayRef 1979119BD0958
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 1 August 1979
51 m awayRef 1979119BD0902
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6302 in County Durham, 21 April 1983
51 m awayRef 1983113BD0359
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 1985115BD0738 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 1985.