B6278 crash in County Durham on 23 January 2005 at 00:18 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the B6278 in County Durham at 00:18 on Sunday 23 January 2005. The 35-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jan 2005
- Sunday, 00:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.59284, longitude -1.97876, in the DL12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200511DC02100
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6278
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 August 2004.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 12 August 2004
14 m awayRef 200411DC21340
Slight
Car crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 16 August 2006
50 m awayRef 200611DC20480
Slight
Car crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 22 September 1979
67 m awayRef 1979119DC1082
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 11 November 1997
184 m awayRef 1997117DC2719
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 15 March 1992
191 m awayRef 1992112DC7175
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 16 May 2010
197 m awayRef 201011SC11430
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 200511DC02100 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.