Unclassified road crash in County Durham DL15 on 17 December 2007 at 21:36 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on an unclassified road in County Durham at 21:36 on Monday 17 December 2007. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2007
- Monday, 21:36
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.71995, longitude -1.76337, in the DL15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200711AB19910
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 January 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 1 January 1988
42 m awayRef 1988118AA0002
Slight
Opel Rekord crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 18 May 1992
125 m awayRef 1992112AB7560
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 30 September 1979
163 m awayRef 1979119AA0741
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 11 July 1987
399 m awayRef 1987117AA0534
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 4 November 1985
411 m awayRef 1985115AA0843
Serious
Volvo 340 crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 14 June 1996
441 m awayRef 1996116AB6088
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,195 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 200711AB19910 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 2007.