Unclassified road crash in County Durham SR8 on 29 March 1981 at 11:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in County Durham at 11:10 on Sunday 29 March 1981. The 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Mar 1981
- Sunday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.76119, longitude -1.33096, in the SR8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peterlee.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981111BE0310
- 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
- Give way or uncontrolled
- 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
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 35 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 May 2019.
Slight
Citroen DS3 crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 13 May 2019
35 m awayRef 2019110848818
Slight
Peugeot 407 crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 20 January 2012
36 m awayRef 201211NE02402
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 24 August 2011
40 m awayRef 201111NE21941
Serious
Citroen C5 crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 30 December 2002
40 m awayRef 200211BE41980
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 5 January 1997
41 m awayRef 1997117BE8911
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 28 October 1979
50 m awayRef 1979119BE1172
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 1981111BE0310 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.