B1285 crash in County Durham on 18 August 2012 at 23:00 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio and a Peugeot 207 were involved in a crash on the B1285 in County Durham at 23:00 on Saturday 18 August 2012. The 22-year-old female driver of the Renault Clio was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Aug 2012
- Saturday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Clio and Peugeot 207
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.81741, longitude -1.40366, in the SR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Murton.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201211NF19892
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1285
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights lit
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 October 1997.
Serious
Citroen AX crash on the B1285 in County Durham, 4 October 1997
17 m awayRef 1997117BF0758
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 23 November 1997
18 m awayRef 1997117BF1144
Slight
Car crash on the B1285 in County Durham, 13 September 1983
22 m awayRef 1983113BF0811
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1285 in County Durham, 6 August 2006
22 m awayRef 200611BF14140
Slight
Car crash on the B1285 in County Durham, 31 August 1982
22 m awayRef 1982112BF0694
Serious
Jaguar F-Pace crash on the B1285 in County Durham, 26 November 2024
23 m awayRef 2024111522326
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, 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 201211NF19892 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 2012.