Serious A181 crash in County Durham on 17 April 2004 at 11:15 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle crashed on the A181 in County Durham at 11:15 on Saturday 17 April 2004. The 38-year-old male rider was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Apr 2004
- Saturday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.74555, longitude -1.4516, in the DH6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200411BE13380
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 181
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 1279
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 1999.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A181 in County Durham, 9 December 1999
At the same spotRef 1999119BE3623
Slight
Car crash on the A181 in County Durham, 8 August 1995
At the same spotRef 1995115BE5874
Slight
Van crash on the A181 in County Durham, 13 April 2004
At the same spotRef 200411BE12690
Slight
Dennis crash on the A181 in County Durham, 22 October 1999
At the same spotRef 1999119BE3054
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A181 in County Durham, 3 February 2016
4 m awayRef 201611NE04236
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A181 in County Durham, 8 July 2017
5 m awayRef 2017110206266
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 38, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
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 200411BE13380 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 2004.