B1279 crash in County Durham on 5 October 2005 at 20:40 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series hit a pedestrian on the B1279 in County Durham at 20:40 on Wednesday 5 October 2005. A 23-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Oct 2005
- Wednesday, 20:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.74618, longitude -1.41446, in the DH6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wheatley Hill. It is one of the crashes that make up the Thornley & Wheatley Hill, County Durham, DH6 3LD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200511BE23990
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1279
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 April 1986.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1279 in County Durham, 3 April 1986
10 m awayRef 1986116BE0311
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B1279 in County Durham, 2 February 2002
10 m awayRef 200211BE05850
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1279 in County Durham, 6 October 1992
22 m awayRef 1992112BE9333
Slight
Land Rover crash on the B1279 in County Durham, 6 December 1991
30 m awayRef 1991111BE7368
Serious
Aprilia Leonardo 125 crash on the B1279 in County Durham, 17 February 2012
41 m awayRef 201211NE04672
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 5 December 2025
43 m awayRef 2025111701065
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 23, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 200511BE23990 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.