A66 crash in County Durham on 7 December 2011 at 08:13 involving a Renault Kangoo
A Renault Kangoo crashed on the A66 in County Durham at 08:13 on Wednesday 7 December 2011. The 43-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow and high winds on an icy dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2011
- Wednesday, 08:13
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Kangoo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.50654, longitude -2.11684, 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
- 201111SC32461
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 66
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Snowing with high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, 29 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 December 2010.
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A66 in County Durham, 23 December 2010
29 m awayRef 201011SC33110
Slight
Car crash on the A66 in Darlington, 12 May 1986
80 m awayRef 1986116DC0330
Slight
HGV crash on the A66 in County Durham, 25 April 2004
138 m awayRef 200411DC12140
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A66 in County Durham, 8 November 1996
138 m awayRef 1996116DC6923
Slight
ERF crash on the A66 in County Durham, 14 October 1990
200 m awayRef 1990110DC4060
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A66 in County Durham, 22 September 2002
209 m awayRef 200211DC27010
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Kangoo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Kangoo)
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 201111SC32461 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.