B1281 crash in County Durham on 3 June 1990 at 19:25 involving a Fiat Panda
A Fiat Panda crashed on the B1281 in County Durham at 19:25 on Sunday 3 June 1990. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Jun 1990
- Sunday, 19:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Panda
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.7365, longitude -1.35125, in the TS27 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990110BE3575
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1281
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a fatal crash on 6 February 1980.
Fatal
Car crash on the B1281 in County Durham, 6 February 1980
36 m awayRef 1980110BE0151
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B1281 in County Durham, 4 September 2007
41 m awayRef 200711BE14470
Slight
Car crash on the B1281 in County Durham, 8 December 1981
50 m awayRef 1981111BE1127
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B1281 in County Durham, 6 April 2021
55 m awayRef 2021111033314
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1281 in County Durham, 20 April 2017
58 m awayRef 2017110182598
Slight
Audi A1 crash on the B1281 in County Durham, 9 June 2024
59 m awayRef 2024111471034
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Panda
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 903 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Panda)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Panda)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Panda)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Panda)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 1990110BE3575 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.