B6284 crash in County Durham on 11 March 1979 at 02:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the B6284 in County Durham at 02:30 on Sunday 11 March 1979. A 19-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Mar 1979
- Sunday, 02:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.65659, longitude -1.68532, in the DL14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bishop Auckland.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979119AA0221
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6284
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 33 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 November 2017.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B6284 in County Durham, 9 November 2017
33 m awayRef 2017110248485
Slight
Bristol (BLMC) crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 27 November 1990
40 m awayRef 1990110AA4367
Slight
Car crash on a C road in County Durham, 21 December 1985
41 m awayRef 1985115AA0999
Slight
Car crash on the B6284 in County Durham, 9 July 1981
50 m awayRef 1981111AA0528
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on a C road in County Durham, 1 April 2004
51 m awayRef 200411AA10360
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on a C road in County Durham, 30 June 2011
58 m awayRef 201111SA16271
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 1979119AA0221 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 1979.