B6444 crash in County Durham on 27 November 2008 at 16:45 involving a Mazda 6
A car and a Mazda 6 were involved in a crash on the B6444 in County Durham at 16:45 on Thursday 27 November 2008. The 54-year-old female driver of the Mazda 6 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Nov 2008
- Thursday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mazda 6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.58963, longitude -1.56434, in the DL1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Aycliffe South, County Durham, DL1 3NP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200811SK30198
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6444
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights lit
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 August 2008.
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the B6444 in County Durham, 12 August 2008
10 m awayRef 200811SK20608
Slight
Lexus GS300 crash on the B6444 in County Durham, 19 January 2001
22 m awayRef 200111AK02330
Slight
Car crash on the A167 in County Durham, 7 August 2013
63 m awayRef 201311SK16843
Serious
Suzuki GZ 125 crash on the A167 in County Durham, 14 August 2005
63 m awayRef 200511AK19060
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A167 in County Durham, 26 June 1999
64 m awayRef 1999119AK1691
Serious
Suzuki Wagon R+ crash on the A167 in County Durham, 13 October 2023
65 m awayRef 2023111365076
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Mazda 6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mazda 6)
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 200811SK30198 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 2008.