Serious unclassified road crash in County Durham DL5 on 29 January 2025 at 15:30 involving a Seat Leon
A Seat Leon and a Land Rover Range Rover Evoque were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in County Durham at 15:30 on Wednesday 29 January 2025. The 31-year-old male driver of the Land Rover Range Rover Evoque was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Jan 2025
- Wednesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Leon and Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.5999, longitude -1.57095, in the DL5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newton Aycliffe. It is one of the crashes that make up the Aycliffe South, County Durham, DL5 6SG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025111548285
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 October 2017.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in County Durham, 27 October 2017
2 m awayRef 2017110241983
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on a C road in County Durham, 26 September 2018
2 m awayRef 2018110332584
Slight
Seat Exeo crash on a C road in County Durham, 8 August 2014
3 m awayRef 201411SK18204
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in County Durham, 6 August 1991
4 m awayRef 1991111AK5784
Slight
Volvo S60 crash on a C road in County Durham, 27 January 2012
4 m awayRef 201211SK01072
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on a C road in County Durham, 19 November 2013
6 m awayRef 201311SK27063
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,179 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Land Rover Range Rover Evoque)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2025111548285 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 2025.