B6299 crash in County Durham on 12 April 2018 at 19:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Peugeot 108 were involved in a crash on the B6299 in County Durham at 19:00 on Thursday 12 April 2018. The 21-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 108 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Apr 2018
- Thursday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Peugeot 108
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.73083, longitude -1.73502, 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
- 2018110318436
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 September 2022.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B6299 in County Durham, 2 September 2022
3 m awayRef 2022111221844
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B6299 in County Durham, 28 June 2013
5 m awayRef 201311SB14473
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the B6299 in County Durham, 20 June 2000
8 m awayRef 200011AA16570
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6299 in County Durham, 10 November 1998
8 m awayRef 1998118AB3230
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B6299 in County Durham, 12 June 1993
8 m awayRef 1993113AB9905
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B6299 in County Durham, 23 June 1993
8 m awayRef 1993113AB9984
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 108
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 108)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most 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 2018110318436 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 2018.