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A689 crash in Hartlepool on 29 December 1997 at 08:20 involving a car

A car crashed on the A689 in Hartlepool at 08:20 on Monday 29 December 1997. The 25-year-old female driver was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on an icy dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
29 Dec 1997
Monday, 08:20
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.63878, longitude -1.34506, in the TS22 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Hartlepool

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199717S201161
Council area
Hartlepool
Police force
Cleveland

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
689
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
70 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
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
Daylight
Weather
Fine with high winds
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 August 1990.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    Skidding and overturning
    Overturned
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside and rebounded
    Hit object off carriageway
    Central crash barrier
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    25 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Female, aged 25, 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 199717S201161 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 1997.