B6279 crash in Darlington on 20 December 2002 at 13:05 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the B6279 in Darlington at 13:05 on Friday 20 December 2002. The 48-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2002
- Friday, 13:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.56875, longitude -1.70191, in the DL2 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200211DJ37320
- Council area
- Darlington
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6279
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 October 2001.
Serious
Car crash on the B6279 in Darlington, 21 October 2001
10 m awayRef 200111DJ29970
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B6279 in Darlington, 29 March 2004
10 m awayRef 200411DJ09630
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B6279 in Darlington, 24 July 1997
14 m awayRef 1997117DJ1771
Fatal
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B6279 in Darlington, 14 February 1991
32 m awayRef 1991111DJ4887
Fatal
BMW 5 Series crash on the B6279 in Darlington, 18 October 1996
45 m awayRef 1996116DJ6752
Slight
Peugeot Partner crash on the B6279 in Darlington, 23 August 2002
54 m awayRef 200211DJ23920
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,989 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 200211DJ37320 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Darlington road accident statistics for 2002.