Unclassified road crash in County Durham DL17 on 23 October 2013 at 08:45 involving a Renault Scenic
A Renault Scenic hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in County Durham at 08:45 on Wednesday 23 October 2013. A 54-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Oct 2013
- Wednesday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Scenic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.65776, longitude -1.5579, in the DL17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chilton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chilton, County Durham, DL17 0EZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201311SL22753
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 75 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 March 1983.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A167 in County Durham, 11 March 1983
75 m awayRef 1983113AK0150
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 26 October 1981
79 m awayRef 1981111AK0851
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 15 November 1998
81 m awayRef 1998118AK3252
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 18 May 2000
88 m awayRef 200011AK13620
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 15 April 1998
97 m awayRef 1998118AK1177
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 20 May 2005
97 m awayRef 200511AL11920
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Scenic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 54, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Scenic)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201311SL22753 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.