B6278 crash in County Durham on 21 March 2000 at 15:55 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla crashed on the B6278 in County Durham at 15:55 on Tuesday 21 March 2000. The 44-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Mar 2000
- Tuesday, 15:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Corolla
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.5655, 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
- 200011DC08730
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 November 1999.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 20 November 1999
10 m awayRef 1999119DC3082
Slight
Rover Mini crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 16 June 1996
14 m awayRef 1996116DC6060
Serious
Suzuki Ignis crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 21 June 2022
210 m awayRef 2022111190086
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 14 September 2012
244 m awayRef 201211SC22032
Slight
Car crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 16 March 1979
328 m awayRef 1979119AC0241
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 16 March 1996
393 m awayRef 1996116DC5618
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,332 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Corolla)
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 200011DC08730 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 2000.