Unclassified road crash in County Durham DH9 on 30 November 2017 at 16:40 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Renault Megane were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in County Durham at 16:40 on Thursday 30 November 2017. The 32-year-old male driver of the Renault Megane was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Nov 2017
- Thursday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.85114, longitude -1.74395, in the DH9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Annfield Plain.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017110253612
- 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
- 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
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 February 2010.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 17 February 2010
3 m awayRef 201011NH04980
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 23 June 2016
90 m awayRef 2016110091933
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the A693 in County Durham, 13 March 2012
240 m awayRef 201211NH07732
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A693 in County Durham, 16 February 2016
241 m awayRef 201611NH04596
Serious
Renault 9 crash on the A693 in County Durham, 10 May 1991
247 m awayRef 1991111CH5952
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A693 in County Durham, 26 January 2000
270 m awayRef 200011CH03670
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Megane)
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 2017110253612 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.