B6296 crash in County Durham on 3 November 2007 at 06:00 involving a Citroen Xsara
A Citroen Xsara crashed on the B6296 in County Durham at 06:00 on Saturday 3 November 2007. A 26-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Nov 2007
- Saturday, 06:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Xsara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.79479, longitude -1.80119, 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
- 200711CI17810
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6296
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 June 2000.
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the B6296 in County Durham, 18 June 2000
42 m awayRef 200011CI19150
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6296 in County Durham, 31 August 2004
163 m awayRef 200411CI25450
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B6296 in County Durham, 17 December 2019
265 m awayRef 2019110910406
Slight
Foden crash on the B6296 in County Durham, 2 September 1994
305 m awayRef 1994114CI3641
Serious
Car crash on the B6296 in County Durham, 19 December 2009
433 m awayRef 200911NI34869
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the B6296 in County Durham, 20 January 2020
435 m awayRef 2020110923984
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North 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
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Xsara)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200711CI17810 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.