B6278 crash in County Durham on 20 November 1999 at 18:06 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the B6278 in County Durham at 18:06 on Saturday 20 November 1999. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Nov 1999
- Saturday, 18:06
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.56541, longitude -1.92465, in the DL12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1999119DC3082
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6278
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 March 2000.
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 21 March 2000
10 m awayRef 200011DC08730
Slight
Rover Mini crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 16 June 1996
22 m awayRef 1996116DC6060
Serious
Suzuki Ignis crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 21 June 2022
218 m awayRef 2022111190086
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 14 September 2012
235 m awayRef 201211SC22032
Slight
Car crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 16 March 1979
336 m awayRef 1979119AC0241
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 16 March 1996
383 m awayRef 1996116DC5618
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 1999119DC3082 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.