B6168 crash in County Durham on 17 December 2005 at 11:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B6168 in County Durham at 11:00 on Saturday 17 December 2005. The 49-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2005
- Saturday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.86407, longitude -1.74617, in the DH9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Annfield Plain. It is one of the crashes that make up the Annfield Plain & Tanfield, County Durham, DH9 8NW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200511CH30530
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6168
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 September 2002.
Slight
Car crash on the B6168 in County Durham, 30 September 2002
At the same spotRef 200211CH33160
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the B6168 in County Durham, 7 January 2018
4 m awayRef 2018110263304
Slight
Car crash on the B6168 in County Durham, 24 April 2012
6 m awayRef 201211NH10112
Slight
Hyundai Getz crash on the B6168 in County Durham, 21 May 2014
8 m awayRef 201411NH12234
Serious
Car crash on the B6168 in County Durham, 8 March 1988
14 m awayRef 1988118CI0135
Slight
Car crash on the B6168 in County Durham, 2 May 1981
22 m awayRef 1981111CI0274
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 200511CH30530 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.