C road crash in County Durham DH7 on 27 December 2013 at 08:55 involving a Citroen C1
A Citroen C1 and a Honda Civic were involved in a crash on a C road in County Durham at 08:55 on Friday 27 December 2013. The 20-year-old male driver of the Citroen C1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2013
- Friday, 08:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen C1 and Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.78115, longitude -1.61571, in the DH7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201311ND29433
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 26 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 February 1987.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in County Durham, 14 February 1987
26 m awayRef 1987117BD0131
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in County Durham, 5 April 1993
45 m awayRef 1993113BD0568
Slight
Van crash on a C road in County Durham, 30 June 1988
77 m awayRef 1988118BD0525
Serious
Car crash on a C road in County Durham, 16 October 1983
116 m awayRef 1983113BD0912
Slight
Car crash on a C road in County Durham, 29 April 1981
118 m awayRef 1981111BD0431
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in County Durham, 15 December 2001
123 m awayRef 200111BD38930
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,204 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C1)
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 201311ND29433 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 2013.