Serious unclassified road crash in County Durham DL14 on 8 November 2025 at 20:18 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on an unclassified road in County Durham at 20:18 on Saturday 8 November 2025. A 22-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Nov 2025
- Saturday, 20:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.63943, longitude -1.71834, in the DL14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025111665614
- 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
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very 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, 77 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 June 1984.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 8 June 1984
77 m awayRef 1984114AA0442
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 21 September 1979
79 m awayRef 1979119AA0687
Slight
Citroen BX crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 30 January 1996
151 m awayRef 1996116AA5359
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 11 January 2003
182 m awayRef 200311AA01960
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 25 April 2019
197 m awayRef 2019110846477
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 24 October 2015
197 m awayRef 201511SA21935
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 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 2025111665614 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.