Unclassified road crash in County Durham DL14 on 12 October 2010 at 19:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in County Durham at 19:00 on Tuesday 12 October 2010. The 43-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 2010
- Tuesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.62866, longitude -1.72533, in the DL14 postcode district and within the built-up area of West Auckland.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201011SA24360
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 December 1991.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A688 in County Durham, 5 December 1991
At the same spotRef 1991111AA6612
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A688 in County Durham, 20 November 1998
At the same spotRef 1998118AA3338
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A688 in County Durham, 8 December 2003
At the same spotRef 200311AA36230
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A688 in County Durham, 19 September 1996
10 m awayRef 1996116AA6582
Slight
Leyland AM crash on the A688 in County Durham, 7 June 1990
10 m awayRef 1990110AA3323
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A688 in County Durham, 18 August 1993
10 m awayRef 1993113AA0313
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 43, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 201011SA24360 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 2010.