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Serious A689 crash in Hartlepool on 6 December 1995 at 10:00 involving a Ford Escort van

A Ford Escort van and a lorry were involved in a crash on the A689 in Hartlepool at 10:00 on Wednesday 6 December 1995. The 36-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort van was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
6 Dec 1995
Wednesday, 10:00
Vehicles
2
Ford Escort and lorry
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.65344, longitude -1.22563, in the TS25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hartlepool.

Map of where the crash happened in Hartlepool

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199517H100654
Council area
Hartlepool
Police force
Cleveland

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
689
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 April 1995.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Ford Escort

    Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    36 years
    Engine capacity
    1,753 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    4 years

  • Vehicle 2: Lorry

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    29 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 36, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)

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 199517H100654 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hartlepool road accident statistics for 1995.