C road crash in County Durham DL17 on 23 December 2007 at 18:55 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in County Durham at 18:55 on Sunday 23 December 2007. A 31-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 23 Dec 2007
- Sunday, 18:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.69138, longitude -1.54557, in the DL17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ferryhill.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200711AL20140
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a fatal crash on 27 March 2011.
Fatal
Audi A3 crash on a C road in County Durham, 27 March 2011
32 m awayRef 201111SL07761
Slight
Car crash on a C road in County Durham, 16 June 2004
42 m awayRef 200411AK16530
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in County Durham, 22 November 1989
45 m awayRef 1989119AK2093
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 3 August 1998
82 m awayRef 1998118AK2284
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on a C road in County Durham, 29 January 1999
126 m awayRef 1999119AL0291
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 28 January 2023
132 m awayRef 2023111269336
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 31, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 200711AL20140 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.