B6300 crash in County Durham on 15 September 2001 at 05:53 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic and a Rover 400 Series were involved in a crash on the B6300 in County Durham at 05:53 on Saturday 15 September 2001. The 32-year-old male driver of the Honda Civic was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Sep 2001
- Saturday, 05:53
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Civic and Rover 400 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.74375, longitude -1.61473, in the DH7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200111BD28710
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6300
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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 17 February 2004.
Slight
Ford Fusion crash on the B6300 in County Durham, 17 February 2004
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Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6300 in County Durham, 22 October 1999
At the same spotRef 1999119BD3048
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B6300 in County Durham, 22 September 2006
At the same spotRef 200611BD16730
Serious
Suzuki Baleno crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 21 March 2025
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Serious
Skoda Karoq crash on the B6300 in County Durham, 26 September 2018
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Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B6300 in County Durham, 26 October 2009
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 400 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,589 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
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 200111BD28710 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.