B6291 crash in County Durham on 9 June 2003 at 14:08 involving a Citroen Xantia
A Citroen Xantia and a Honda CBR900RR motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B6291 in County Durham at 14:08 on Monday 9 June 2003. The 41-year-old male rider of the Honda CBR900RR motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jun 2003
- Monday, 14:08
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Xantia and Honda CBR900RR
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.7162, longitude -1.50384, in the DH6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coxhoe. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bowburn & Coxhoe, County Durham, DH6 4SL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200311BD20370
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6291
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 July 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6291 in County Durham, 24 July 2001
10 m awayRef 200111BD23310
Slight
Car crash on the B6291 in County Durham, 1 July 2014
10 m awayRef 201411ND15744
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B6291 in County Durham, 9 November 1998
14 m awayRef 1998118BD2913
Slight
Rover 75 crash on the B6291 in County Durham, 21 August 2001
28 m awayRef 200111BD25560
Slight
Bristol (BLMC) crash on the B6291 in County Durham, 14 June 1994
36 m awayRef 1994114BD3217
Fatal
Car crash on the A177 in County Durham, 4 August 1983
40 m awayRef 1983113BD0689
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xantia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Honda CBR900RR
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 918 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 41, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda CBR900RR)
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 200311BD20370 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.