Serious A6072 crash in County Durham on 21 November 2004 at 09:30 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 crashed on the A6072 in County Durham at 09:30 on Sunday 21 November 2004. The 19-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Nov 2004
- Sunday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.62264, longitude -1.65707, in the DL4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200411AK29480
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6072
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 162 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 April 1990.
Slight
Morris Mini crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 18 April 1990
162 m awayRef 1990110AK3012
Serious
Mazda 2 crash on the A6072 in County Durham, 8 September 2021
180 m awayRef 2021111085537
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 23 January 2007
228 m awayRef 200711AK03040
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 21 February 2025
236 m awayRef 2025111556990
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 26 October 1984
314 m awayRef 1984114AK0837
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A6072 in County Durham, 14 February 2001
320 m awayRef 200111AK04970
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
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 200411AK29480 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 2004.