B1285 crash in County Durham on 17 November 1996 at 06:35 involving a car
A car crashed on the B1285 in County Durham at 06:35 on Sunday 17 November 1996. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Nov 1996
- Sunday, 06:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.83894, longitude -1.36736, in the SR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Seaham.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996116BF8575
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1285
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 7 November 1996.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1285 in County Durham, 7 November 1996
At the same spotRef 1996116BF8538
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the B1285 in County Durham, 6 June 2025
9 m awayRef 2025111599757
Slight
Car crash on the B1285 in County Durham, 8 December 1988
10 m awayRef 1988118BF1101
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B1285 in County Durham, 6 November 2012
15 m awayRef 201211NF32102
Slight
Car crash on the B1285 in County Durham, 7 July 1985
32 m awayRef 1985115BF0592
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1285 in County Durham, 3 October 2012
38 m awayRef 201211NF24022
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1996116BF8575 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 1996.