A690 crash in County Durham on 4 March 2021 at 11:25 involving a Volkswagen Fox
A Volkswagen Fox and a car were involved in a crash on the A690 in County Durham at 11:25 on Thursday 4 March 2021. The 22-year-old female driver of the car 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
- 4 Mar 2021
- Thursday, 11:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Fox and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.71507, longitude -1.7429, in the DL15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crook. It is one of the crashes that make up the Crook, County Durham, DL15 8QH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021111028124
- 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
- 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 August 2016.
Slight
Volkswagen Lupo crash on the A690 in County Durham, 18 August 2016
4 m awayRef 2016110104528
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A690 in County Durham, 31 January 2024
7 m awayRef 2024111405052
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A690 in County Durham, 14 February 2002
12 m awayRef 200211AA05040
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A690 in County Durham, 13 March 1995
12 m awayRef 1995115AB3590
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A690 in County Durham, 24 August 1998
14 m awayRef 1998118AB2515
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in County Durham, 8 January 2009
14 m awayRef 200911SB00729
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Fox
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2021111028124 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 2021.