B1320 crash in County Durham on 6 June 2001 at 16:00 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B1320 in County Durham at 16:00 on Wednesday 6 June 2001. The 13-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jun 2001
- Wednesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.76033, longitude -1.31806, in the SR8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peterlee. It is one of the crashes that make up the Horden & Dene House, County Durham, SR8 4RL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200111BE18480
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1320
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 December 2019.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B1320 in County Durham, 11 December 2019
5 m awayRef 2019110910552
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B1320 in County Durham, 21 September 2012
6 m awayRef 201211NE23522
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B1320 in County Durham, 24 July 2021
9 m awayRef 2021111070526
Slight
Audi A7 crash on the B1320 in County Durham, 1 June 2025
11 m awayRef 2025111598042
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the B1320 in County Durham, 28 November 1991
14 m awayRef 1991111BE7313
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the B1320 in County Durham, 1 June 2006
14 m awayRef 200611BE09950
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 13, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 200111BE18480 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.