A690 crash in County Durham on 21 November 1980 at 16:25 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A690 in County Durham at 16:25 on Friday 21 November 1980. A 20-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Nov 1980
- Friday, 16:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.77803, longitude -1.5771, in the DH1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Durham.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980110BD1024
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 690
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 June 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A690 in County Durham, 21 June 1982
At the same spotRef 1982112BD0492
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A690 in County Durham, 25 August 2025
16 m awayRef 2025111633231
Slight
Vauxhall Adam crash on the A690 in County Durham, 3 May 2015
21 m awayRef 201511ND08655
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A690 in County Durham, 29 May 2010
22 m awayRef 201011ND12780
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A690 in County Durham, 25 October 2020
23 m awayRef 2020110993056
Serious
Volkswagen Sharan crash on the A690 in County Durham, 4 May 2025
24 m awayRef 2025111585789
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- 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 1980110BD1024 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 1980.