Serious B1279 crash in County Durham on 19 July 2006 at 20:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the B1279 in County Durham at 20:45 on Wednesday 19 July 2006. A 17-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Jul 2006
- Wednesday, 20:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.74953, longitude -1.43741, in the DH6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Thornley.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200611BF12900
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 May 2005.
Slight
Isuzu Trooper crash on the B1279 in County Durham, 5 May 2005
At the same spotRef 200511BE11840
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1279 in County Durham, 12 August 2003
10 m awayRef 200311BE27300
Serious
Van crash on the B1279 in County Durham, 20 March 1987
22 m awayRef 1987117BE0241
Serious
Hyundai i40 crash on the B1279 in County Durham, 21 February 2025
27 m awayRef 2025111562206
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B1279 in County Durham, 21 January 2010
30 m awayRef 201011NE01720
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B1279 in County Durham, 7 May 2002
30 m awayRef 200211BE18210
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 17, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 200611BF12900 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 2006.