Serious B6310 crash in County Durham on 4 January 2017 at 16:12 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat hit a pedestrian on the B6310 in County Durham at 16:12 on Wednesday 4 January 2017. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Jan 2017
- Wednesday, 16:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.90622, longitude -1.72308, in the NE16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burnopfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Derwent & Pont Valley, County Durham, NE16 6LN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017110148018
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6310
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 March 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the B6310 in County Durham, 5 March 1987
15 m awayRef 1987117CI0132
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B6310 in County Durham, 1 September 1993
15 m awayRef 1993113CH1500
Slight
Seat Marbella crash on the B6310 in County Durham, 26 April 1995
17 m awayRef 1995115CH5187
Slight
Car crash on the B6310 in County Durham, 8 February 1980
19 m awayRef 1980110CI0121
Serious
Van crash on the B6310 in County Durham, 27 August 1986
19 m awayRef 1986116CI0503
Serious
Car crash on the B6310 in County Durham, 19 January 1985
28 m awayRef 1985115CI0035
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- 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
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least 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 2017110148018 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 2017.