Unclassified road crash in County Durham SR7 on 8 October 2003 at 13:11 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in County Durham at 13:11 on Wednesday 8 October 2003. A 13-year-old female 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
- 8 Oct 2003
- Wednesday, 13:11
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Corolla
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.84141, longitude -1.35454, in the SR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Seaham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dalton & Dawdon, County Durham, SR7 8AU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200311BE32190
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 June 2011.
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Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 29 June 2011
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Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 1 November 1988
36 m awayRef 1988118BF0950
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Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 10 August 1984
45 m awayRef 1984114BF0656
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Renault 19 crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 26 April 1996
85 m awayRef 1996116BF7460
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Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 11 July 1981
98 m awayRef 1981111BF0648
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Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 22 July 1983
100 m awayRef 1983113BF0651
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,295 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Corolla)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 200311BE32190 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.