B6309 crash in County Durham on 7 December 2019 at 17:53 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B6309 in County Durham at 17:53 on Saturday 7 December 2019. A 44-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2019
- Saturday, 17:53
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.88851, longitude -1.83637, in the DH8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019110907479
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6309
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 September 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the B6309 in County Durham, 13 September 1989
22 m awayRef 1989119CI1613
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B6309 in County Durham, 12 May 2016
37 m awayRef 2016110070805
Fatal
Ford Fusion crash on the B6309 in County Durham, 22 May 2016
57 m awayRef 2016110070292
Slight
Car crash on the B6309 in County Durham, 31 October 1988
58 m awayRef 1988118CI0571
Slight
Isuzu Piazza crash on the B6309 in County Durham, 20 November 1992
65 m awayRef 1992112CI9671
Serious
Car crash on the B6309 in County Durham, 6 September 1981
92 m awayRef 1981111CI0529
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 44, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2019110907479 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 2019.