Unclassified road crash in County Durham SR7 on 22 February 1999 at 12:45 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in County Durham at 12:45 on Monday 22 February 1999. A 16-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Feb 1999
- Monday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.84194, longitude -1.3525, in the SR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Seaham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1999119BF0639
- 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
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 1989.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 3 December 1989
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 7 September 1979
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 23 November 1984
90 m awayRef 1984114BF1006
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 7 September 1985
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 11 October 1985
90 m awayRef 1985115BF0933
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 1999119BF0639 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.