B1285 crash in County Durham on 30 November 2025 at 12:00 involving a Vauxhall Mokka
A goods vehicle and a Vauxhall Mokka were involved in a crash on the B1285 in County Durham at 12:00 on Sunday 30 November 2025. The 53-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Mokka and a 61-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Mokka were 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
- 30 Nov 2025
- Sunday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Goods vehicle and Vauxhall Mokka
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.81463, longitude -1.36626, in the SR7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Murton, County Durham, SR7 8ST area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025111677027
- 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
- B
- First road number
- 1285
- 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
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, 35 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 November 1979.
Serious
Lorry crash on the A19 in County Durham, 16 November 1979
35 m awayRef 1979119BF1243
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A19 in County Durham, 29 March 1992
49 m awayRef 1992112BF8140
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A19 in County Durham, 12 July 1993
57 m awayRef 1993113BE1202
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B1285 in County Durham, 9 November 2002
57 m awayRef 200211BE37550
Slight
Volkswagen Vento crash on the A19 in County Durham, 11 May 1996
60 m awayRef 1996116BE7496
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A19 in County Durham, 18 August 2009
65 m awayRef 200911NF21409
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Goods vehicle
Goods vehicle, weight unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Mokka
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Mokka)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Mokka)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025111677027 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.