M1 crash in Chesterfield on 13 November 1979 at 10:44 involving a car
A car crashed on the M1 in Chesterfield at 10:44 on Tuesday 13 November 1979. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Nov 1979
- Tuesday, 10:44
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.253, longitude -1.32549, in the S43 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chesterfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979309C02461
- Council area
- Chesterfield
- Police force
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 1
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 1993.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the M1 in Bolsover, 31 October 1993
At the same spotRef 1993303C00680
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Toyota Celica crash on the M1 in Bolsover, 18 December 1998
At the same spotRef 1998308C10145
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the M1 in Chesterfield, 21 October 1990
At the same spotRef 1990300C00799
Slight
Lorry crash on the M1 in Chesterfield, 13 October 1988
At the same spotRef 1988308C00724
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Car crash on the M1 in Bolsover, 17 August 1979
At the same spotRef 1979309C01752
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the M1 in Chesterfield, 22 November 1983
At the same spotRef 1983303C02564
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 1979309C02461 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chesterfield road accident statistics for 1979.