Unclassified road crash in County Durham DL14 on 20 June 1981 at 09:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in County Durham at 09:00 on Saturday 20 June 1981. The 29-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and a 10-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jun 1981
- Saturday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.65624, longitude -1.65742, in the DL14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981111AA0479
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 December 2013.
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Slight
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Slight
Kawasaki crash on the A688 in County Durham, 1 November 2001
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Citroen C15 crash on the A688 in County Durham, 5 May 2001
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Serious
Car crash on the A688 in County Durham, 12 August 2017
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 10, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 1981111AA0479 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.