B6274 crash in County Durham on 15 February 2007 at 21:45 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic crashed on the B6274 in County Durham at 21:45 on Thursday 15 February 2007. The 63-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Feb 2007
- Thursday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.56218, longitude -1.78485, in the DL2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200711DC03760
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6274
- 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
- Raining, 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 August 2006.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B6274 in County Durham, 18 August 2006
14 m awayRef 200611DC20710
Slight
Yamaha crash on the B6274 in County Durham, 7 June 1998
130 m awayRef 1998118DC1539
Slight
Yamaha crash on the B6274 in County Durham, 12 April 1990
158 m awayRef 1990110DC2992
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B6274 in County Durham, 11 October 1999
177 m awayRef 1999119DC2694
Slight
Car crash on the B6274 in County Durham, 24 June 1981
570 m awayRef 1981111DC0425
Slight
Bus crash on the B6274 in County Durham, 1 July 1988
714 m awayRef 1988118DC0342
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
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 200711DC03760 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.