B6287 crash in County Durham on 28 December 2019 at 15:35 involving a Seat Alhambra
A bus or coach and a Seat Alhambra were involved in a crash on the B6287 in County Durham at 15:35 on Saturday 28 December 2019. A 30-year-old male passenger in the Seat Alhambra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Dec 2019
- Saturday, 15:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bus or coach and Seat Alhambra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.67711, longitude -1.60145, in the DL16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019110915942
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6287
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 November 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the B6287 in County Durham, 1 November 1982
40 m awayRef 1982112AK0774
Serious
Car crash on the B6287 in County Durham, 2 February 1980
49 m awayRef 1980110AK0101
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B6287 in County Durham, 4 July 2019
84 m awayRef 2019110857303
Slight
Car crash on the B6289 in County Durham, 10 February 1983
110 m awayRef 1983113AK0074
Slight
Audi TT crash on the B6287 in County Durham, 20 July 2009
116 m awayRef 200911SL18709
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on the B6287 in County Durham, 19 November 2000
182 m awayRef 200011AK31740
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Seat Alhambra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Seat Alhambra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2019110915942 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.