B6302 crash in County Durham on 25 August 2017 at 21:54 involving a Peugeot 207
A Peugeot 207 crashed on the B6302 in County Durham at 21:54 on Friday 25 August 2017. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Aug 2017
- Friday, 21:54
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 207
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.78137, longitude -1.67158, in the DH7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017110222800
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6302
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 July 2007.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B6302 in County Durham, 11 July 2007
8 m awayRef 200711BD11340
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B6302 in County Durham, 9 August 2009
18 m awayRef 200911ND20629
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B6302 in County Durham, 26 October 2014
19 m awayRef 201411ND25314
Serious
Volkswagen Lupo crash on the B6302 in County Durham, 4 July 2014
41 m awayRef 201411ND15984
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B6302 in County Durham, 9 March 1997
46 m awayRef 1997117BD9262
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the B6302 in County Durham, 24 February 2018
47 m awayRef 2018110274796
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 207)
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 2017110222800 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.