B6280 crash in Darlington on 12 December 2005 at 19:35 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B6280 in Darlington at 19:35 on Monday 12 December 2005. The 68-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2005
- Monday, 19:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.51866, longitude -1.5719, in the DL3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Darlington. It is one of the crashes that make up the College, Darlington, DL3 7HG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Darlington
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200511DJ30650
- Council area
- Darlington
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6280
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 September 2009.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B6280 in Darlington, 11 September 2009
At the same spotRef 200911SJ24639
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on the A67 in Darlington, 7 October 2015
4 m awayRef 201511SJ20315
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B6280 in Darlington, 22 February 2019
4 m awayRef 2019110819770
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the B6280 in Darlington, 7 August 2020
5 m awayRef 2020110971049
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Darlington, 24 November 2018
6 m awayRef 2018110803623
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B6280 in Darlington, 10 December 1996
10 m awayRef 1996116DJ7186
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 68 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South 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
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 200511DJ30650 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Darlington road accident statistics for 2005.