B6301 crash in County Durham on 23 November 2007 at 22:20 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 crashed on the B6301 in County Durham at 22:20 on Friday 23 November 2007. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Nov 2007
- Friday, 22:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.7726, longitude -1.75576, 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
- 200711CI19360
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 July 2019.
Serious
Van crash on the B6301 in County Durham, 30 July 2019
8 m awayRef 2019110863892
Slight
Ford crash on the B6301 in County Durham, 19 October 2001
14 m awayRef 200111CI33050
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the B6301 in County Durham, 28 January 2014
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Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the B6301 in County Durham, 18 August 2008
163 m awayRef 200811NI20748
Slight
Bedford crash on the B6301 in County Durham, 27 January 1990
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Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on the B6301 in County Durham, 7 July 2024
219 m awayRef 2024111464556
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Any animal (except ridden horse)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
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 200711CI19360 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.