C road crash in County Durham DH2 on 22 August 2014 at 18:55 involving a Vauxhall Agila
A Vauxhall Agila and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in County Durham at 18:55 on Friday 22 August 2014. The 20-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Aug 2014
- Friday, 18:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Agila and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.87194, longitude -1.61528, in the DH2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pelton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pelton, County Durham, DH2 1DX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201411NG19384
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 1 January 2018.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in County Durham, 1 January 2018
1 m awayRef 2018110262504
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in County Durham, 20 October 2005
7 m awayRef 200511CG24270
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in County Durham, 18 April 1986
16 m awayRef 1986116CG0231
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A693 in County Durham, 26 March 1982
21 m awayRef 1982112CG0177
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A693 in County Durham, 4 July 1980
21 m awayRef 1980110CG0415
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in County Durham, 26 October 1985
21 m awayRef 1985115CG0644
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Agila
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 201411NG19384 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.