B6278 crash in County Durham on 5 October 1990 at 15:50 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van crashed on the B6278 in County Durham at 15:50 on Friday 5 October 1990. The 48-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Oct 1990
- Friday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.71109, longitude -2.02092, 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
- 1990110AA4011
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6278
- 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 121 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 December 2014.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 23 December 2014
121 m awayRef 201411SB31024
Fatal
Tractor crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 28 May 2017
128 m awayRef 2017110186812
Slight
Van crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 21 August 1981
151 m awayRef 1981111AA0634
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 3 September 1981
262 m awayRef 1981111AA0674
Slight
Car crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 6 September 1987
693 m awayRef 1987117AA0714
Slight
Honda CMX 500 crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 29 June 2025
1.2 km awayRef 2025111609928
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
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 1990110AA4011 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 1990.