C road crash in County Durham DH6 on 18 February 2001 at 02:00 involving a Vauxhall Belmont
A Vauxhall Belmont crashed on a C road in County Durham at 02:00 on Sunday 18 February 2001. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Feb 2001
- Sunday, 02:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Belmont
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.73883, longitude -1.41721, in the DH6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wheatley Hill. It is one of the crashes that make up the Thornley & Wheatley Hill, County Durham, DH6 3LD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200111BE05160
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- A
- Second road number
- 181
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
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 July 1991.
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A181 in County Durham, 23 July 1991
10 m awayRef 1991111BE6480
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 24 June 2019
14 m awayRef 2019110855661
Slight
Ford Transit crash on a C road in County Durham, 21 December 2016
17 m awayRef 2016110142455
Slight
Vauxhall Chevette crash on the A181 in County Durham, 25 January 1993
20 m awayRef 1993113BE0052
Slight
Car crash on the A181 in County Durham, 3 May 1981
22 m awayRef 1981111BE0418
Slight
Car crash on the A181 in County Durham, 3 March 1984
22 m awayRef 1984114BE0186
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Belmont
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Belmont)
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 200111BE05160 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.