C road crash in Erewash DE7 on 8 December 1979 at 02:05 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Erewash at 02:05 on Saturday 8 December 1979. The 27-year-old male driver and an 18-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 1979
- Saturday, 02:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.98955, longitude -1.31321, in the DE7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ilkeston.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979309A02143
- Council area
- Erewash
- Police force
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 July 1982.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Erewash, 27 July 1982
At the same spotRef 1982302A01286
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Erewash, 3 April 1986
At the same spotRef 1986306A00198
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Erewash, 23 March 1988
At the same spotRef 1988308A00170
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Erewash, 17 July 1986
At the same spotRef 1986306A00405
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Erewash, 15 February 1993
At the same spotRef 1993303E00049
Slight
Ford Granada crash on an unclassified road in Erewash, 20 April 1996
At the same spotRef 1996306A00258
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1979309A02143 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Erewash road accident statistics for 1979.