B6301 crash in County Durham on 23 March 2007 at 11:52 involving a Ford Transit Connect van
A Ford Transit Connect van crashed on the B6301 in County Durham at 11:52 on Friday 23 March 2007. The 56-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 2007
- Friday, 11:52
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit Connect
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.77036, longitude -1.76043, in the DH7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200711CH06110
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6301
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 December 2014.
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on the B6301 in County Durham, 20 December 2014
54 m awayRef 201411NI30364
Slight
Car crash on the B6301 in County Durham, 31 March 1980
61 m awayRef 1980110CI0228
Slight
Chevrolet Kalos crash on the B6301 in County Durham, 9 September 2016
69 m awayRef 2016110110399
Slight
Car crash on the B6301 in County Durham, 9 January 1992
114 m awayRef 1992112CI7585
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on the B6301 in County Durham, 7 July 2024
172 m awayRef 2024111464556
Slight
Car crash on the B6301 in County Durham, 7 July 1983
178 m awayRef 1983113CI0377
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit Connect)
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 200711CH06110 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.