A689 crash in County Durham on 19 July 1981 at 07:50 involving a car
A car crashed on the A689 in County Durham at 07:50 on Sunday 19 July 1981. The 39-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
- 19 Jul 1981
- Sunday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.7446, longitude -2.05977, in the DL13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981111AA0550
- 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
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 May 2007.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A689 in County Durham, 18 May 2007
14 m awayRef 200711AB09180
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A689 in County Durham, 5 July 2005
14 m awayRef 200511AB15300
Fatal
Renault Scenic crash on the A689 in County Durham, 24 March 2022
22 m awayRef 2022111162344
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A689 in County Durham, 4 November 2004
60 m awayRef 200411AA27960
Serious
BMW S 1000 crash on the A689 in County Durham, 15 September 2020
67 m awayRef 2020110983912
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the A689 in County Durham, 1 July 2011
179 m awayRef 201111SB15891
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
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, 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 1981111AA0550 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.