B6299 crash in County Durham on 1 March 2010 at 19:10 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the B6299 in County Durham at 19:10 on Monday 1 March 2010. The 31-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Mar 2010
- Monday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.72471, longitude -1.71707, in the DL15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201011SB05500
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6299
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a fatal crash on 8 April 2000.
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the B6299 in County Durham, 8 April 2000
10 m awayRef 200011AA10160
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B6299 in County Durham, 20 January 2003
22 m awayRef 200311AA03460
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6299 in County Durham, 22 July 2010
85 m awayRef 201011SB16950
Slight
Car crash on the B6299 in County Durham, 5 July 1985
85 m awayRef 1985115AA0530
Slight
Car crash on the B6299 in County Durham, 24 May 2006
106 m awayRef 200611AB13750
Slight
Car crash on the B6299 in County Durham, 25 February 1988
284 m awayRef 1988118AA0140
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 201011SB05500 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.