A690 crash in County Durham on 13 October 2014 at 10:53 involving a Mini One
A Mini One hit a pedestrian on the A690 in County Durham at 10:53 on Monday 13 October 2014. A 65-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Oct 2014
- Monday, 10:53
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mini One
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.80814, longitude -1.50519, 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
- 201411ND26564
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 690
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 November 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A690 in County Durham, 6 November 1987
9 m awayRef 1987117BD0989
Serious
Car crash on the A690 in County Durham, 11 August 1989
14 m awayRef 1989119BD1408
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A690 in County Durham, 20 May 1999
14 m awayRef 1999119BD1513
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A690 in County Durham, 23 November 1990
16 m awayRef 1990110BD4768
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A690 in County Durham, 8 May 1990
21 m awayRef 1990110BD3437
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A690 in County Durham, 18 December 1990
21 m awayRef 1990110BD4993
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mini One
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 65, hit by vehicle 1 (Mini One)
- 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 201411ND26564 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.