B6278 crash in County Durham on 25 January 2002 at 12:58 involving a Renault Laguna
A Renault Laguna crashed on the B6278 in County Durham at 12:58 on Friday 25 January 2002. The 28-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jan 2002
- Friday, 12:58
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Laguna
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.59742, longitude -1.9817, in the DL12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200211DC02520
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6278
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 April 2000.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 25 April 2000
10 m awayRef 200011DC11670
Slight
MG ZR crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 13 December 2015
26 m awayRef 201511SC25965
Slight
Car crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 12 March 2007
40 m awayRef 200711DC05230
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 2 December 1991
70 m awayRef 1991111DC6544
Slight
Car crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 24 August 1987
71 m awayRef 1987117DC0514
Serious
Car crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 19 May 1979
85 m awayRef 1979119AC0384
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Laguna)
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 200211DC02520 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.