Unclassified road crash in County Durham DL17 on 6 August 2014 at 16:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in County Durham at 16:50 on Wednesday 6 August 2014. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Aug 2014
- Wednesday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.66201, longitude -1.55225, in the DL17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chilton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chilton, County Durham, DL17 0EZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201411SL17954
- 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
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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 53 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 January 1981.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 24 January 1981
53 m awayRef 1981111AK0093
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 7 June 1997
81 m awayRef 1997117AK1322
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 24 October 1979
95 m awayRef 1979119AK0801
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 10 July 1982
95 m awayRef 1982112AK0447
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 28 November 2011
100 m awayRef 201111SL29781
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 30 March 2004
102 m awayRef 200411AK10350
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 201411SL17954 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.