A689 crash in County Durham on 17 December 2012 at 12:00 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a car were involved in a crash on the A689 in County Durham at 12:00 on Monday 17 December 2012. The 27-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit van and the 42-year-old male driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2012
- Monday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.75192, longitude -2.22286, 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
- 201211SB31042
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 689
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 34 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 November 1980.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A689 in County Durham, 13 November 1980
34 m awayRef 1980110AA1056
Slight
Car crash on the A689 in County Durham, 29 September 1979
235 m awayRef 1979119AA0735
Slight
Car crash on the A689 in County Durham, 7 October 1983
260 m awayRef 1983113AA0753
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A689 in County Durham, 8 April 2013
281 m awayRef 201311SB08273
Slight
Car crash on the A689 in County Durham, 13 October 1981
319 m awayRef 1981111AA0811
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A689 in County Durham, 16 February 1991
412 m awayRef 1991111AA4868
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 201211SB31042 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 2012.