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A182 crash in County Durham on 17 April 1998 at 23:15 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A182 in County Durham at 23:15 on Friday 17 April 1998. A 28-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
17 Apr 1998
Friday, 23:15
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.79915, longitude -1.4064, in the DH6 postcode district and within the built-up area of South Hetton.

Map of where the crash happened in County Durham

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1998118BE1060
Council area
County Durham
Police force
Durham

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
182
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
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
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 May 2018.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver age
    38 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 28, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 1998118BE1060 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 1998.