B1320 crash in County Durham on 5 December 2017 at 16:21 involving a Volvo V40
A Volvo V40 hit a pedestrian on the B1320 in County Durham at 16:21 on Tuesday 5 December 2017. A 15-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 2017
- Tuesday, 16:21
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo V40
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.76051, longitude -1.33195, in the SR8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peterlee. It is one of the crashes that make up the Horden & Dene House, County Durham, SR8 4RL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017110256371
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1320
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 February 2003.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1320 in County Durham, 5 February 2003
8 m awayRef 200311BE06580
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1320 in County Durham, 1 April 2010
8 m awayRef 201011NE08400
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B1320 in County Durham, 7 January 1995
8 m awayRef 1995115BE4506
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the B1320 in County Durham, 18 April 1992
11 m awayRef 1992112BE8245
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B1320 in County Durham, 16 December 1991
11 m awayRef 1991111BE7413
Slight
Vauxhall Chevette crash on the B1320 in County Durham, 15 June 1991
11 m awayRef 1991111BE6265
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo V40
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,969 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo V40)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2017110256371 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.