Serious B6278 crash in County Durham on 14 April 1991 at 13:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B6278 in County Durham at 13:45 on Sunday 14 April 1991. The 45-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Apr 1991
- Sunday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.75638, longitude -2.0124, 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
- 1991111AB5149
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 April 1991.
Slight
Leyland Cars Mini crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 9 April 1991
14 m awayRef 1991111AA5185
Slight
Car crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 17 November 1981
51 m awayRef 1981111AA0915
Slight
Car crash on the B2678 in County Durham, 20 August 1987
140 m awayRef 1987117AA0636
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 19 February 1998
237 m awayRef 1998118AB0734
Serious
BMW R Series crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 24 July 2022
250 m awayRef 2022111224087
Serious
Car crash on the B6278 in County Durham, 18 September 1987
330 m awayRef 1987117AA0737
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 45, 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 1991111AB5149 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 1991.