Unclassified road crash in County Durham DL16 on 17 December 2025 at 16:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in County Durham at 16:00 on Wednesday 17 December 2025. An 11-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2025
- Wednesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.69747, longitude -1.60461, in the DL16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Spennymoor. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tudhoe, County Durham, DL16 6QB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025111684448
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 November 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in County Durham, 27 November 2014
11 m awayRef 201411SL27694
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 3 December 2011
19 m awayRef 201111SL30901
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on a C road in County Durham, 9 June 2006
22 m awayRef 200611AL15170
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 2 April 2002
26 m awayRef 200211AK12100
Slight
Car crash on a C road in County Durham, 5 July 1985
26 m awayRef 1985115AK0538
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on a C road in County Durham, 20 December 1999
35 m awayRef 1999119AL3416
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Offside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2025111684448 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.