B6296 crash in County Durham on 21 August 1985 at 23:40 involving a car
A car crashed on the B6296 in County Durham at 23:40 on Wednesday 21 August 1985. The 38-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Aug 1985
- Wednesday, 23:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.74003, longitude -1.85568, 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
- 1985115AA0633
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6296
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 October 2007.
Slight
Suzuki GSXR 1000 crash on the B6296 in County Durham, 16 October 2007
28 m awayRef 200711AA16380
Fatal
Yamaha crash on the B6296 in County Durham, 12 July 2006
28 m awayRef 200611AA16670
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B6296 in County Durham, 24 May 2007
99 m awayRef 200711AB08420
Serious
Car crash on the B6296 in County Durham, 15 January 1984
155 m awayRef 1984114AA0038
Slight
Car crash on the B6296 in County Durham, 3 October 2006
164 m awayRef 200611AB23630
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6296 in County Durham, 28 September 1994
292 m awayRef 1994114AA2532
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, 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 1985115AA0633 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 1985.