B6277 crash in County Durham on 10 April 2016 at 15:30 involving a Triumph Sprint ST 1050 motorcycle
A Triumph Sprint ST 1050 motorcycle crashed on the B6277 in County Durham at 15:30 on Sunday 10 April 2016. The 44-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Apr 2016
- Sunday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Triumph Sprint ST 1050
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.67405, longitude -2.2279, in the DL12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016110061502
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6277
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 August 2003.
Slight
Honda CB600 Hornet crash on the B6277 in County Durham, 17 August 2003
10 m awayRef 200311DC23070
Serious
Mercedes 300 crash on the B6277 in County Durham, 22 August 2007
219 m awayRef 200711DC13440
Slight
ERF crash on the B6277 in County Durham, 7 March 1999
260 m awayRef 1999119DC0691
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6277 in County Durham, 7 October 2012
283 m awayRef 201211SC24252
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6277 in County Durham, 12 September 1981
334 m awayRef 1981111DC0650
Slight
Car crash on the B6277 in County Durham, 29 May 1980
456 m awayRef 1980110DC0423
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Triumph Sprint ST 1050
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,050 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 44, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Triumph Sprint ST 1050)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 2016110061502 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 2016.