B6298 crash in County Durham on 13 December 2010 at 10:15 involving a Saab 9000
A Saab 9000 and a Ford Transit Connect van were involved in a crash on the B6298 in County Durham at 10:15 on Monday 13 December 2010. The 21-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit Connect van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 2010
- Monday, 10:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Saab 9000 and Ford Transit Connect
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.71462, longitude -1.74648, in the DL15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crook. It is one of the crashes that make up the Crook, County Durham, DL15 8QH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201011SB29630
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6298
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 690
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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 28 June 1998.
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A690 in County Durham, 28 June 1998
At the same spotRef 1998118AB1918
Slight
Car crash on the A689 in County Durham, 5 March 2003
At the same spotRef 200311AA07470
Slight
Iveco crash on the A690 in County Durham, 1 February 2005
At the same spotRef 200511AA03960
Serious
Fiat Uno crash on the A689 in County Durham, 2 December 1999
At the same spotRef 1999119AB3210
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A689 in County Durham, 21 October 1994
At the same spotRef 1994114AA2659
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B6298 in County Durham, 28 September 2006
At the same spotRef 200611AA22740
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Saab 9000
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,985 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit Connect)
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 201011SB29630 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.