B6291 crash in County Durham on 13 May 2001 at 23:43 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on the B6291 in County Durham at 23:43 on Sunday 13 May 2001. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 May 2001
- Sunday, 23:43
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.72523, longitude -1.51398, in the DH6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coxhoe.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200111BD16630
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6291
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 March 2006.
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the B6291 in County Durham, 16 March 2006
At the same spotRef 200611BD05610
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the B6291 in County Durham, 9 September 1994
10 m awayRef 1994114BD3681
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the A177 in County Durham, 11 October 1990
22 m awayRef 1990110BD4386
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 22 February 1990
22 m awayRef 1990110BD2907
Serious
Rover Montego crash on the B6291 in County Durham, 25 November 1994
28 m awayRef 1994114BD4163
Serious
Car crash on the A177 in County Durham, 21 February 1986
40 m awayRef 1986116BD0181
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,043 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 200111BD16630 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 2001.