A690 crash in County Durham on 22 January 1999 at 12:55 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta, a Vauxhall Calibra and a Mercedes Sprinter van were involved in a crash on the A690 in County Durham at 12:55 on Friday 22 January 1999. The 34-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jan 1999
- Friday, 12:55
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Fiesta and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.7582, longitude -1.60993, in the DH7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brandon.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1999119BD0294
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 690
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 March 2012.
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A690 in County Durham, 21 March 2012
5 m awayRef 201211ND08342
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A690 in County Durham, 4 June 2015
9 m awayRef 201511ND10965
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A690 in County Durham, 24 March 1997
14 m awayRef 1997117BD9391
Slight
Car crash on the A690 in County Durham, 18 October 1982
20 m awayRef 1982112BD0837
Serious
Taxi crash on the A690 in County Durham, 1 December 1983
20 m awayRef 1983113BD1107
Serious
Volvo 340 crash on the A690 in County Durham, 31 January 1997
22 m awayRef 1997117BD9119
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Calibra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 3: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,874 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 1999119BD0294 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 1999.