Unclassified road crash in County Durham SR7 on 28 October 2025 at 19:32 involving a Vauxhall Mokka
A van and a Vauxhall Mokka were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in County Durham at 19:32 on Tuesday 28 October 2025. The 33-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Mokka and a 41-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Mokka were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Oct 2025
- Tuesday, 19:32
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and Vauxhall Mokka
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.83527, longitude -1.3561, in the SR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Seaham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dalton & Dawdon, County Durham, SR7 8AU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025111663306
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 April 2022.
Serious
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 30 April 2022
4 m awayRef 2022111171776
Slight
Austin Mini crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 20 May 1997
7 m awayRef 1997117BF9659
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 22 May 1989
9 m awayRef 1989119BF0918
Serious
Car crash on a C road in County Durham, 11 September 1987
13 m awayRef 1987117BF0790
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 22 December 2018
17 m awayRef 2018110808458
Slight
Peugeot Partner crash on a C road in County Durham, 22 June 2010
19 m awayRef 201011NF14940
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Mokka
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Mokka)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Mokka)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2025111663306 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.