C road crash in County Durham DL15 on 19 November 1981 at 05:50 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in County Durham at 05:50 on Thursday 19 November 1981. The 57-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Nov 1981
- Thursday, 05:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.70734, longitude -1.67949, 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
- 1981111AA0918
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 1991.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in County Durham, 8 December 1991
22 m awayRef 1991111AB6682
Slight
Car crash on a C road in County Durham, 23 November 1980
50 m awayRef 1980110AA1079
Slight
Car crash on a C road in County Durham, 24 December 1985
60 m awayRef 1985115AA1008
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in County Durham, 12 December 1993
80 m awayRef 1993113AB0989
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on a C road in County Durham, 25 December 2006
104 m awayRef 200611AB31350
Slight
Car crash on a C road in County Durham, 14 February 1988
108 m awayRef 1988118AA0119
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 57, 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 1981111AA0918 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.