A68 crash in County Durham on 11 March 2014 at 08:40 involving a Fiat Seicento
A Fiat Seicento and a Citroen Saxo were involved in a crash on the A68 in County Durham at 08:40 on Tuesday 11 March 2014. The 39-year-old female driver of the Citroen Saxo 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
- 11 Mar 2014
- Tuesday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Seicento and Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.63235, longitude -1.72735, in the DL14 postcode district and within the built-up area of West Auckland.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201411SA05864
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 68
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 June 1982.
Serious
Car crash on the A68 in County Durham, 7 June 1982
10 m awayRef 1982112AA0373
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A68 in County Durham, 9 September 2008
18 m awayRef 200811SA22458
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in County Durham, 28 August 1985
20 m awayRef 1985115AA0651
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A68 in County Durham, 27 February 1990
24 m awayRef 1990110AL2741
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A68 in County Durham, 23 August 2008
84 m awayRef 200811SA21018
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A68 in County Durham, 5 February 2001
84 m awayRef 200111DC04500
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Seicento
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 86 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,108 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen Saxo)
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 201411SA05864 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.