A689 crash in County Durham on 15 November 1983 at 07:15 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A689 in County Durham at 07:15 on Tuesday 15 November 1983. The 12-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Nov 1983
- Tuesday, 07:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.71379, longitude -1.74618, 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
- 1983113AA0874
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 31 January 2019.
Serious
Mercedes Vito crash on the B6298 in County Durham, 31 January 2019
13 m awayRef 2019110826634
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A689 in County Durham, 18 March 2010
14 m awayRef 201011SB07230
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B6298 in County Durham, 4 December 2025
21 m awayRef 2025111678714
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A689 in County Durham, 12 September 1998
22 m awayRef 1998118AB2780
Serious
Peugeot 406 crash on the B6298 in County Durham, 26 February 2008
22 m awayRef 200811SB04688
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 16 December 2016
26 m awayRef 2016110154050
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 12, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 1983113AA0874 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 1983.