Unclassified road crash in County Durham SR7 on 23 August 2001 at 19:10 involving a Ford Escort
A bicycle and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in County Durham at 19:10 on Thursday 23 August 2001. The 5-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Aug 2001
- Thursday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.83489, longitude -1.36351, in the SR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Seaham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dalton & Dawdon, County Durham, SR7 8AU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200111BE26580
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 February 1990.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 10 February 1990
22 m awayRef 1990110BF2785
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 12 January 2012
25 m awayRef 201211NF01742
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 3 March 1996
28 m awayRef 1996116BF7209
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 7 July 2009
28 m awayRef 200911NF17469
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 18 December 1991
32 m awayRef 1991111BF7417
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 8 October 1985
54 m awayRef 1985115BF0930
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 5, on vehicle 1 (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 200111BE26580 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.