Unclassified road crash in County Durham DL15 on 26 October 2002 at 00:10 involving a Ford Orion
A Ford Orion and a Peugeot 306 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in County Durham at 00:10 on Saturday 26 October 2002. The 33-year-old male driver of the Ford Orion was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Oct 2002
- Saturday, 00:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Orion and Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.71398, longitude -1.70302, in the DL15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Willington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Willington & Hunwick, County Durham, DL15 0EQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200211AK31270
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 690
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 April 1991.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A690 in County Durham, 13 April 1991
20 m awayRef 1991111AB5171
Slight
Car crash on the A690 in County Durham, 22 August 1988
20 m awayRef 1988118AA0625
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A690 in County Durham, 11 June 1994
22 m awayRef 1994114AB1947
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A690 in County Durham, 27 August 1999
32 m awayRef 1999119AA2260
Slight
LDV 400 Series crash on the A690 in County Durham, 11 February 1997
32 m awayRef 1997117AB0313
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A690 in County Durham, 27 June 1993
32 m awayRef 1993113AB0004
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Orion)
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 200211AK31270 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 2002.