Unclassified road crash in County Durham TS21 on 28 January 2024 at 13:30 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in County Durham at 13:30 on Sunday 28 January 2024. The 50-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jan 2024
- Sunday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.65245, longitude -1.44399, in the TS21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sedgefield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sedgefield, County Durham, TS21 2AS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024111409266
- 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
- Other 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
- Daylight
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 December 1995.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in County Durham, 12 December 1995
7 m awayRef 1995115AK5054
Serious
Leyland crash on a C road in County Durham, 10 April 1990
8 m awayRef 1990110AK2947
Slight
Lorry crash on the A177 in County Durham, 17 January 1979
45 m awayRef 1979119DK0088
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on a C road in County Durham, 5 September 1993
99 m awayRef 1993113AK0401
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 11 February 1986
107 m awayRef 1986116AK0107
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in County Durham, 18 January 1997
130 m awayRef 1997117AK0094
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2024111409266 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 2024.