A688 crash in County Durham on 13 September 1985 at 12:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A688 in County Durham at 12:20 on Friday 13 September 1985. A 3-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Sep 1985
- Friday, 12:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.63509, longitude -1.71414, in the DL14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bishop Auckland.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985115AA0713
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 688
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 26 October 2001.
Fatal
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A688 in County Durham, 26 October 2001
At the same spotRef 200111AA30680
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A688 in County Durham, 16 October 1999
10 m awayRef 1999119AA2733
Slight
Car crash on the A688 in County Durham, 6 November 1985
20 m awayRef 1985115AA0844
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 24 July 2025
21 m awayRef 2025111621850
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in County Durham, 23 December 2013
36 m awayRef 201311SA30523
Slight
Renault 21 crash on the A688 in County Durham, 9 January 1997
41 m awayRef 1997117AA0043
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 3, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1985115AA0713 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.