B1320 crash in County Durham on 15 March 2005 at 18:20 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a car were involved in a crash on the B1320 in County Durham at 18:20 on Tuesday 15 March 2005. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Mar 2005
- Tuesday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and car
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.76059, longitude -1.33236, in the SR8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peterlee. It is one of the crashes that make up the Horden & Dene House, County Durham, SR8 4RL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200511BE09730
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1320
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 June 2004.
Slight
Taxi crash on the B1320 in County Durham, 5 June 2004
At the same spotRef 200411BE16850
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B1320 in County Durham, 8 December 2007
At the same spotRef 200711BE20080
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B1320 in County Durham, 3 May 2004
At the same spotRef 200411BE17390
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B1320 in County Durham, 7 July 2025
5 m awayRef 2025111612871
Slight
Suzuki Wagon R+ crash on the B1320 in County Durham, 13 September 2013
6 m awayRef 201311NE20003
Slight
Hyundai ix20 crash on the B1320 in County Durham, 11 December 2019
7 m awayRef 2019110909050
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 10, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 200511BE09730 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 2005.