Unclassified road crash in County Durham DL14 on 10 December 2015 at 07:10 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in County Durham at 07:10 on Thursday 10 December 2015. The 63-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Dec 2015
- Thursday, 07:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.64738, longitude -1.68563, in the DL14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bishop Auckland. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bishop Auckland, County Durham, DL14 6PB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201511SA25555
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 April 1981.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 16 April 1981
6 m awayRef 1981111AA0311
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 14 January 1999
7 m awayRef 1999119AA0147
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 21 May 2004
7 m awayRef 200411AA14050
Slight
Minibus crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 3 July 2011
7 m awayRef 201111SA16121
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 21 November 1997
15 m awayRef 1997117AA2818
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 30 November 1981
24 m awayRef 1981111AA0972
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 63, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 201511SA25555 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 2015.