B6299 crash in County Durham on 22 January 2017 at 10:10 involving a Ford Transit Connect van
A car and a Ford Transit Connect van were involved in a crash on the B6299 in County Durham at 10:10 on Sunday 22 January 2017. The 41-year-old female driver of the car and the 58-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit Connect van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jan 2017
- Sunday, 10:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Transit Connect
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.73167, longitude -1.73757, in the DL15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017110154914
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6299
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 June 2014.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6299 in County Durham, 5 June 2014
2 m awayRef 201411SB12704
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on a C road in County Durham, 13 March 1999
2 m awayRef 1999119AB0725
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the B6299 in County Durham, 3 June 1994
2 m awayRef 1994114AB1914
Serious
Vauxhall Mokka crash on the B6299 in County Durham, 30 November 2025
2 m awayRef 2025111676792
Slight
Toyota crash on the B6299 in County Durham, 14 January 2013
2 m awayRef 201311SB00743
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the B6299 in County Durham, 18 April 2014
4 m awayRef 201411SB08874
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 58, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit Connect)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017110154914 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.