Serious unclassified road crash in County Durham TS21 on 2 May 2014 at 17:15 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in County Durham at 17:15 on Friday 2 May 2014. The 68-year-old male rider of the Honda motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 May 2014
- Friday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.66346, longitude -1.45036, in the TS21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sedgefield.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201411SK09694
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 1278
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 January 1982.
Serious
Car crash on the B1278 in County Durham, 29 January 1982
7 m awayRef 1982112AK0065
Slight
Rover Maestro crash on a C road in County Durham, 20 April 1995
19 m awayRef 1995115AK3787
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in County Durham, 11 January 1994
25 m awayRef 1994114AK1176
Slight
Citroen BX crash on a C road in County Durham, 10 December 1998
34 m awayRef 1998118AK3623
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the B1278 in County Durham, 8 June 1999
34 m awayRef 1999119AK1521
Serious
Rover Metro crash on the B1278 in County Durham, 26 July 1995
39 m awayRef 1995115AK4268
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,100 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 68, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda)
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 201411SK09694 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.