Unclassified road crash in County Durham DH6 on 30 April 1997 at 11:00 involving a Nissan Sunny
A Nissan Sunny hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in County Durham at 11:00 on Wednesday 30 April 1997. A 27-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Apr 1997
- Wednesday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Sunny
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.73542, longitude -1.52692, in the DH6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bowburn.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997117BD9570
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 June 2015.
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Volkswagen Passat crash on the A177 in County Durham, 26 June 2011
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Serious
Car crash on the A177 in County Durham, 21 May 1983
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Slight
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Sunny
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 27, hit by vehicle 1 (Nissan Sunny)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- 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 1997117BD9570 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 1997.