A689 crash in County Durham on 16 August 2024 at 07:37 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A689 in County Durham at 07:37 on Friday 16 August 2024. The 26-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 30-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Aug 2024
- Friday, 07:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.73323, longitude -1.97868, 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
- 2024111480384
- 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
- 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
- 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 12 February 1998.
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A689 in County Durham, 12 February 1998
4 m awayRef 1998118AB0617
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A689 in County Durham, 11 May 2008
4 m awayRef 200811SB11928
Slight
Car crash on the A689 in County Durham, 24 November 1985
45 m awayRef 1985115AA0902
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A689 in County Durham, 20 August 1986
242 m awayRef 1986116AA0658
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A689 in County Durham, 20 June 1979
294 m awayRef 1979119AA0442
Serious
Car crash on the A689 in County Durham, 30 August 1980
334 m awayRef 1980110AA0784
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
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 2024111480384 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 2024.