B6288 crash in County Durham on 26 July 1991 at 09:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B6288 in County Durham at 09:30 on Friday 26 July 1991. The 28-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jul 1991
- Friday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.71201, longitude -1.5885, in the DL16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Spennymoor.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1991111AL5734
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6288
- 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
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 June 1993.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6288 in County Durham, 29 June 1993
At the same spotRef 1993113AL0002
Fatal
Car crash on the B6288 in County Durham, 2 June 1981
10 m awayRef 1981111AK0432
Slight
Car crash on the B6288 in County Durham, 10 May 1984
10 m awayRef 1984114AK0358
Serious
Skoda Octavia crash on the B6288 in County Durham, 3 September 2023
18 m awayRef 2023111348223
Serious
Car crash on the B6288 in County Durham, 7 July 1989
40 m awayRef 1989119AK1133
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 24 August 2009
42 m awayRef 200911SL21669
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 28, 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 1991111AL5734 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.