Serious B6296 crash in County Durham on 6 June 1989 at 17:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B6296 in County Durham at 17:00 on Tuesday 6 June 1989. The 27-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Jun 1989
- Tuesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.73798, longitude -1.87153, in the DL13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989119AA0977
- 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 1992.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6296 in County Durham, 1 February 1992
20 m awayRef 1992112AB6905
Slight
Van crash on the B6296 in County Durham, 8 May 1990
50 m awayRef 1990110AB3135
Slight
Car crash on the B6296 in County Durham, 6 October 2015
57 m awayRef 201511SB20605
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the B6296 in County Durham, 30 May 2007
108 m awayRef 200711AA08850
Slight
Yamaha crash on the B6296 in County Durham, 7 July 1993
125 m awayRef 1993113AA0029
Serious
Mini One crash on the B6296 in County Durham, 6 September 2022
135 m awayRef 2022111216901
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 348 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,748 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 27, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 1989119AA0977 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 1989.