C road crash in Derby DE23 on 19 January 1979 at 14:15 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Derby at 14:15 on Friday 19 January 1979. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow and high winds on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jan 1979
- Friday, 14:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.89973, longitude -1.51087, in the DE23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Derby.
Map of where the crash happened in Derby
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979309D00224
- Council area
- Derby
- Police force
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Snowing with high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
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The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 September 1988.
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Serious
Car crash on a C road in Derby, 9 October 1987
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, 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 1979309D00224 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Derby road accident statistics for 1979.