B6279 crash in Darlington on 26 February 2003 at 07:35 involving a car
A car crashed on the B6279 in Darlington at 07:35 on Wednesday 26 February 2003. The 23-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Feb 2003
- Wednesday, 07:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.56857, longitude -1.70114, in the DL2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Darlington
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200311DJ07040
- Council area
- Darlington
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6279
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 August 2002.
Slight
Peugeot Partner crash on the B6279 in Darlington, 23 August 2002
At the same spotRef 200211DJ23920
Fatal
BMW 5 Series crash on the B6279 in Darlington, 18 October 1996
10 m awayRef 1996116DJ6752
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6279 in Darlington, 26 February 2003
10 m awayRef 200311DJ06510
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the B6279 in Darlington, 12 February 1998
14 m awayRef 1998118DJ0621
Fatal
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B6279 in Darlington, 14 February 1991
36 m awayRef 1991111DJ4887
Serious
Car crash on the B6279 in Darlington, 21 October 2001
45 m awayRef 200111DJ29970
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200311DJ07040 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Darlington road accident statistics for 2003.