Unclassified road crash in County Durham DH6 on 7 April 2022 at 08:00 involving a Vauxhall Crossland
A Vauxhall Crossland and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in County Durham at 08:00 on Thursday 7 April 2022. The 36-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Apr 2022
- Thursday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Crossland and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.74289, longitude -1.42019, in the DH6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wheatley Hill. It is one of the crashes that make up the Thornley & Wheatley Hill, County Durham, DH6 3LD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022111166692
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- 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, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 September 1985.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 13 September 1985
13 m awayRef 1985115BE0826
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 14 January 1990
19 m awayRef 1990110BE2593
Serious
Seat Leon crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 18 April 2024
91 m awayRef 2024111433203
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 3 December 1990
108 m awayRef 1990110BE4844
Slight
Hyundai Accent crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 6 August 2010
131 m awayRef 201011NE18790
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 9 June 1993
134 m awayRef 1993113BE1040
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Crossland
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least 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 2022111166692 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 2022.