Unclassified road crash in County Durham DH6 on 14 November 1999 at 12:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in County Durham at 12:15 on Sunday 14 November 1999. A 10-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Nov 1999
- Sunday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.74733, longitude -1.41087, in the DH6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wheatley Hill.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1999119BE3225
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 November 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the B1279 in County Durham, 20 November 1988
10 m awayRef 1988118BE1022
Slight
Car crash on the B1279 in County Durham, 28 August 1995
28 m awayRef 1995115BE5928
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the B1279 in County Durham, 8 April 1996
30 m awayRef 1996116BE7300
Fatal
Suzuki crash on the B1279 in County Durham, 12 May 2000
32 m awayRef 200011BE14850
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the B1279 in County Durham, 15 July 2016
37 m awayRef 2016110093034
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1279 in County Durham, 21 January 2001
51 m awayRef 200111BE02530
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 10, 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 1999119BE3225 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 1999.