B6279 crash in County Durham on 14 August 2014 at 14:18 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the B6279 in County Durham at 14:18 on Thursday 14 August 2014. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Aug 2014
- Thursday, 14:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.57806, longitude -1.72108, in the DL2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201411SC18874
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6279
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 53 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 October 2006.
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on the B6279 in County Durham, 17 October 2006
53 m awayRef 200611DC24270
Serious
Car crash on the B6279 in County Durham, 11 June 1982
73 m awayRef 1982112DC0387
Slight
Yamaha XJR 1300 crash on the B6279 in County Durham, 10 March 2010
109 m awayRef 201011SC06180
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6279 in County Durham, 5 July 2003
116 m awayRef 200311DC19510
Serious
BMW G 310 crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 7 September 2025
126 m awayRef 2025111647862
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6279 in Darlington, 27 December 1983
132 m awayRef 1983113DJ0941
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 201411SC18874 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.