Unclassified road crash in County Durham SR8 on 10 May 2002 at 16:46 involving a Citroen XM
A Citroen XM hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in County Durham at 16:46 on Friday 10 May 2002. A 5-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 10 May 2002
- Friday, 16:46
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen XM
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.78675, longitude -1.31886, in the SR8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200211BE17220
- 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
- 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, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 December 1981.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 25 December 1981
36 m awayRef 1981111BE1180
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 29 May 1997
72 m awayRef 1997117BE9702
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 27 April 1980
86 m awayRef 1980110BE0380
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1283 in County Durham, 27 September 1999
98 m awayRef 1999119BE2780
Slight
Car crash on the B1283 in County Durham, 4 July 1981
100 m awayRef 1981111BE0625
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 10 May 2003
108 m awayRef 200311BE16610
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen XM
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen XM)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 200211BE17220 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.