C road crash in County Durham DL14 on 17 May 2003 at 13:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in County Durham at 13:30 on Saturday 17 May 2003. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 May 2003
- Saturday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.65083, longitude -1.67884, in the DL14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bishop Auckland. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bishop Auckland, County Durham, DL14 6HF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200311AA14050
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 January 1995.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in County Durham, 22 January 1995
At the same spotRef 1995115AA3273
Slight
MG ZR crash on a C road in County Durham, 24 October 2006
At the same spotRef 200611AA24740
Slight
Ford Orion crash on a C road in County Durham, 7 October 1996
At the same spotRef 1996116AA6720
Slight
Suzuki Alto crash on a C road in County Durham, 5 February 2015
7 m awayRef 201511SA03525
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 20 November 2018
16 m awayRef 2018110803538
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in County Durham, 4 February 1994
20 m awayRef 1994114AA1331
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 200311AA14050 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 2003.