Unclassified road crash in County Durham DH4 on 18 August 2014 at 08:15 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio and a Peugeot 208 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in County Durham at 08:15 on Monday 18 August 2014. The 40-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 208 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Aug 2014
- Monday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Clio and Peugeot 208
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.81586, longitude -1.50091, in the DH4 postcode district and within the built-up area of West Rainton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lumley & West Rainton, County Durham, DH4 6RQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201411ND19814
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 January 2019.
Slight
MAN crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 21 January 2019
9 m awayRef 2019110815136
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 22 September 1995
10 m awayRef 1995115BD6080
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 2 August 1998
14 m awayRef 1998118BD1976
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 22 March 1980
41 m awayRef 1980110BD0269
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 22 June 2006
76 m awayRef 200611BD11300
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 17 April 1981
81 m awayRef 1981111BD0364
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 208
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 208)
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 201411ND19814 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 2014.