A690 crash in County Durham on 10 February 2001 at 18:15 involving a Rover 600 Series
A taxi and a Rover 600 Series were involved in a crash on the A690 in County Durham at 18:15 on Saturday 10 February 2001. The 33-year-old male driver of the Rover 600 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Feb 2001
- Saturday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Taxi and Rover 600 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.77722, longitude -1.57306, in the DH1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Durham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Elvet, Gilesgate & Shincliffe, County Durham, DH1 3RB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200111BD04090
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 690
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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 21 August 2001.
Slight
Car crash on the A690 in County Durham, 21 August 2001
At the same spotRef 200111BD25530
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A690 in County Durham, 15 April 1990
At the same spotRef 1990110BD3265
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 9 February 2022
1 m awayRef 2022111141988
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A690 in County Durham, 12 May 2025
6 m awayRef 2025111588991
Slight
Rover 75 crash on the A690 in County Durham, 11 March 2017
6 m awayRef 2017110167441
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A690 in County Durham, 7 July 2008
10 m awayRef 200811ND17028
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver age
- 37 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 600 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 600 Series)
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 200111BD04090 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 2001.