C road crash in County Durham DL14 on 31 December 2013 at 17:00 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on a C road in County Durham at 17:00 on Tuesday 31 December 2013. The 45-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2013
- Tuesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 206 and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.65812, longitude -1.67634, in the DL14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bishop Auckland. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bishop Auckland, County Durham, DL14 6HF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201311SA29683
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 October 1985.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 12 October 1985
3 m awayRef 1985115AA0787
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in County Durham, 11 January 2014
4 m awayRef 201411SA00984
Slight
Daihatsu Charade crash on a C road in County Durham, 15 July 1999
8 m awayRef 1999119AA1874
Slight
Car crash on the A688 in County Durham, 21 April 1989
8 m awayRef 1989119AA0688
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in County Durham, 11 July 1996
11 m awayRef 1996116AA6210
Slight
Mercedes crash on a C road in County Durham, 7 April 2003
11 m awayRef 200311AA10450
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
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 201311SA29683 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.