Unclassified road crash in County Durham DL17 on 12 June 2025 at 18:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A car and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in County Durham at 18:30 on Thursday 12 June 2025. The 37-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf 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
- 12 Jun 2025
- Thursday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.68436, longitude -1.5406, in the DL17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ferryhill.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025111603357
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 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, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 June 2021.
Serious
Yamaha GPD crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 26 June 2021
8 m awayRef 2021111059971
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 5 February 1980
32 m awayRef 1980110AK0117
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 9 March 1982
45 m awayRef 1982112AK0172
Slight
Car crash on a C road in County Durham, 27 February 1984
91 m awayRef 1984114AK0168
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in County Durham, 27 February 1982
93 m awayRef 1982112AK0136
Slight
Car crash on a C road in County Durham, 25 January 1981
93 m awayRef 1981111AK0078
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 2025111603357 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.