C road crash in County Durham DL13 on 21 March 2011 at 20:00 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in County Durham at 20:00 on Monday 21 March 2011. The 24-year-old male driver and a 20-year-old male passenger were 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
- 21 Mar 2011
- Monday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.61066, longitude -1.80349, in the DL13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201111SC07181
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 72 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 January 1994.
Slight
Volkswagen Transporter crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 26 January 1994
72 m awayRef 1994114DC1257
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 20 July 1982
98 m awayRef 1982112DC0453
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 21 July 2002
100 m awayRef 200211DC22060
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 7 August 2006
144 m awayRef 200611DC20680
Slight
Car crash on a C road in County Durham, 29 June 1982
242 m awayRef 1982112DC0408
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in County Durham, 15 June 1985
269 m awayRef 1985115DC0437
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201111SC07181 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 2011.