C road crash in County Durham DL15 on 20 May 1981 at 19:00 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in County Durham at 19:00 on Wednesday 20 May 1981. The 35-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 May 1981
- Wednesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.72989, longitude -1.7127, in the DL15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981111AA0404
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 November 1997.
Slight
Foden crash on a C road in County Durham, 12 November 1997
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Serious
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Slight
Mazda 626 crash on a C road in County Durham, 2 June 2005
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Slight
Car crash on a C road in County Durham, 24 March 1984
100 m awayRef 1984114AA0233
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in County Durham, 27 January 2014
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Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on a C road in County Durham, 28 February 1997
150 m awayRef 1997117AB0417
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1981111AA0404 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 1981.