B1283 crash in County Durham on 31 December 1986 at 15:10 involving a car
Four cars were involved in a crash on the B1283 in County Durham at 15:10 on Wednesday 31 December 1986. The 32-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 1986
- Wednesday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 4
- Car and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.77556, longitude -1.51945, in the DH6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986116BD1236
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1283
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 February 1983.
Serious
Car crash on the B1283 in County Durham, 13 February 1983
10 m awayRef 1983113BD0156
Fatal
Citroen C3 crash on the B1283 in County Durham, 29 April 2025
22 m awayRef 2025111584782
Slight
Renault crash on the B1283 in County Durham, 26 June 1998
28 m awayRef 1998118BD1653
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B1283 in County Durham, 11 August 2008
36 m awayRef 200811ND20218
Serious
Car crash on the B1283 in County Durham, 25 October 1986
40 m awayRef 1986116BD0949
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1283 in County Durham, 19 April 2008
54 m awayRef 200811ND10018
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, 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 1986116BD1236 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 1986.