B1404 crash in County Durham on 23 December 2009 at 16:30 involving a Peugeot 306
A car and a Peugeot 306 were involved in a crash on the B1404 in County Durham at 16:30 on Wednesday 23 December 2009. The 21-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 306 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2009
- Wednesday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.83987, longitude -1.35269, in the SR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Seaham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dalton & Dawdon, County Durham, SR7 8AU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200911NF34909
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1404
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Wet or damp
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 January 1998.
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the B1404 in County Durham, 9 January 1998
At the same spotRef 1998118BF0158
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1404 in County Durham, 10 November 1995
10 m awayRef 1995115BF6360
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 1 July 1989
10 m awayRef 1989119BF1161
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1404 in County Durham, 13 February 1997
10 m awayRef 1997117BF9139
Fatal
Mercedes crash on the B1404 in County Durham, 21 June 1990
14 m awayRef 1990110BF3687
Slight
Car crash on the B1404 in County Durham, 16 January 1981
14 m awayRef 1981111BF0065
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 306)
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 200911NF34909 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 2009.