B1281 crash in County Durham on 5 March 2014 at 18:10 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B1281 in County Durham at 18:10 on Wednesday 5 March 2014. The 18-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Mar 2014
- Wednesday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.74041, longitude -1.31469, in the TS27 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201411NE05124
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1281
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 September 2016.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B1281 in County Durham, 22 September 2016
9 m awayRef 2016110116045
Slight
Austin Morris Maxi crash on the B1281 in County Durham, 20 July 1991
10 m awayRef 1991111BE6440
Slight
Citroen CX crash on the B1281 in County Durham, 3 December 1994
11 m awayRef 1994114BE4277
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B1281 in County Durham, 20 November 1997
11 m awayRef 1997117BE1141
Serious
Car crash on the B1281 in County Durham, 6 April 1985
16 m awayRef 1985115BE0331
Slight
Renault Clio crash on a C road in County Durham, 13 November 2003
18 m awayRef 200311BE36370
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 201411NE05124 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.