B6287 crash in County Durham on 10 May 2012 at 19:00 involving an Audi A6
An Audi A6 and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B6287 in County Durham at 19:00 on Thursday 10 May 2012. The 15-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 May 2012
- Thursday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A6 and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.66369, longitude -1.63515, in the DL14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coundon and Leeholme. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shildon & Dene Valley, County Durham, DL14 8PY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201211SA11222
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6287
- 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
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 April 1993.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B6287 in County Durham, 17 April 1993
5 m awayRef 1993113AA9595
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B6287 in County Durham, 14 June 1997
5 m awayRef 1997117AA1278
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in County Durham, 27 October 1999
13 m awayRef 1999119AA2841
Slight
Car crash on the A689 in County Durham, 14 March 1984
19 m awayRef 1984114AA0211
Slight
Van crash on the B6287 in County Durham, 3 July 1989
23 m awayRef 1989119AA1128
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on the B6287 in County Durham, 9 August 2003
32 m awayRef 200311AA22260
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 15, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 201211SA11222 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.