A691 crash in County Durham on 30 November 2019 at 14:00 involving a Mercedes A Class
A car and a Mercedes A Class were involved in a crash on the A691 in County Durham at 14:00 on Saturday 30 November 2019. The 74-year-old female driver of the Mercedes A Class was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Nov 2019
- Saturday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.86138, longitude -1.83075, in the DH8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Consett.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019110907283
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 691
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 691
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 September 2009.
Slight
Bus crash on the A691 in County Durham, 22 September 2009
7 m awayRef 200911NI24979
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A691 in County Durham, 11 July 2012
7 m awayRef 201211NI16862
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A691 in County Durham, 6 March 2012
7 m awayRef 201211NI05632
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A691 in County Durham, 29 October 2014
8 m awayRef 201411NI25854
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A691 in County Durham, 17 April 2007
16 m awayRef 200711CI07200
Slight
Bus crash on the A691 in County Durham, 5 January 2009
23 m awayRef 200911NI01289
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 74, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes A Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
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 2019110907283 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 2019.