B6277 crash in County Durham on 17 August 2003 at 16:10 involving a Honda CB600 Hornet motorcycle
A Honda CB600 Hornet motorcycle crashed on the B6277 in County Durham at 16:10 on Sunday 17 August 2003. The 31-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Aug 2003
- Sunday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda CB600 Hornet
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.67396, longitude -2.22792, in the DL12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200311DC23070
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6277
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 April 2016.
Slight
Triumph Sprint ST 1050 crash on the B6277 in County Durham, 10 April 2016
10 m awayRef 2016110061502
Serious
Mercedes 300 crash on the B6277 in County Durham, 22 August 2007
212 m awayRef 200711DC13440
Slight
ERF crash on the B6277 in County Durham, 7 March 1999
269 m awayRef 1999119DC0691
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6277 in County Durham, 7 October 2012
293 m awayRef 201211SC24252
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6277 in County Durham, 12 September 1981
344 m awayRef 1981111DC0650
Slight
Car crash on the B6277 in County Durham, 29 May 1980
452 m awayRef 1980110DC0423
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda CB600 Hornet
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 31, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CB600 Hornet)
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 200311DC23070 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.