Unclassified road crash in County Durham SR7 on 3 October 2003 at 15:50 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in County Durham at 15:50 on Friday 3 October 2003. A 61-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
- 3 Oct 2003
- Friday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.83987, longitude -1.35222, 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
- 200311BF31240
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 1404
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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 June 2001.
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Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 15 December 2025
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Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 29 April 1987
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Serious
Ford Transit crash on the B1404 in County Durham, 24 January 2011
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Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1404 in County Durham, 10 November 1995
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 61, hit by vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200311BF31240 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.