A689 crash in County Durham on 12 February 1998 at 14:30 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A Suzuki motorcycle crashed on the A689 in County Durham at 14:30 on Thursday 12 February 1998. The 49-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Feb 1998
- Thursday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.7332, longitude -1.97869, in the DL13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998118AB0617
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 689
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 May 2008.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A689 in County Durham, 11 May 2008
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Slight
Car crash on the A689 in County Durham, 16 August 2024
4 m awayRef 2024111480384
Slight
Car crash on the A689 in County Durham, 24 November 1985
42 m awayRef 1985115AA0902
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A689 in County Durham, 20 August 1986
242 m awayRef 1986116AA0658
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A689 in County Durham, 20 June 1979
292 m awayRef 1979119AA0442
Serious
Car crash on the A689 in County Durham, 30 August 1980
333 m awayRef 1980110AA0784
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 49, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
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 1998118AB0617 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 1998.