A688 crash in County Durham on 16 March 2010 at 08:00 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the A688 in County Durham at 08:00 on Tuesday 16 March 2010. The 24-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Mar 2010
- Tuesday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.56364, longitude -1.85506, in the DL12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201011SC07070
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 688
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 May 2015.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A688 in County Durham, 18 May 2015
6 m awayRef 201511SC09945
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A688 in County Durham, 21 December 2013
11 m awayRef 201311SC30183
Slight
Mercedes 400 crash on the A688 in County Durham, 2 September 1997
14 m awayRef 1997117DC2004
Fatal
Audi A6 crash on the A688 in County Durham, 27 May 2016
18 m awayRef 2016110071308
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A688 in County Durham, 22 March 1994
20 m awayRef 1994114DC1628
Slight
MAN crash on the A688 in County Durham, 7 October 1998
20 m awayRef 1998118DC2861
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 201011SC07070 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.