A689 crash in County Durham on 26 June 1981 at 13:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A689 in County Durham at 13:00 on Friday 26 June 1981. A 57-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jun 1981
- Friday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.71469, longitude -1.74696, in the DL15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crook.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981111AA0507
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 689
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 690
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 July 1985.
Serious
Car crash on the A689 in County Durham, 6 July 1985
10 m awayRef 1985115AA0515
Slight
Car crash on the A689 in County Durham, 20 February 2001
14 m awayRef 200111AA05630
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the A689 in County Durham, 2 November 1997
14 m awayRef 1997117AB2614
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on the A690 in County Durham, 17 December 2011
17 m awayRef 201111SB31211
Slight
Nissan Vanette crash on the A689 in County Durham, 9 January 1993
20 m awayRef 1993113AB9082
Slight
Car crash on the A689 in County Durham, 15 July 1980
20 m awayRef 1980110AA0626
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 57, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1981111AA0507 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.