A19 crash in County Durham on 15 September 1987 at 08:35 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A19 in County Durham at 08:35 on Tuesday 15 September 1987. The 18-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 25-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Sep 1987
- Tuesday, 08:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.81611, longitude -1.36663, in the SR7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1987117BF0802
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 19
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 January 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A19 in County Durham, 8 January 1979
10 m awayRef 1979119BF0026
Serious
Scania crash on the A19 in County Durham, 11 March 1994
20 m awayRef 1994114BF2707
Serious
Car crash on the A19 in County Durham, 23 October 1980
51 m awayRef 1980110BF0931
Slight
Peugeot Partner crash on the A19 in County Durham, 18 April 2018
54 m awayRef 2018110288404
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A19 in County Durham, 7 December 2000
58 m awayRef 200011BE38470
Fatal
Van crash on the A19 in County Durham, 5 January 1988
61 m awayRef 1988118BF0014
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 1987117BF0802 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 1987.