Unclassified road crash in Derby DE1 on 4 June 1981 at 17:38 involving a car
A car and a bus or coach were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Derby at 17:38 on Thursday 4 June 1981. A female passenger in the bus or coach was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jun 1981
- Thursday, 17:38
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.91934, longitude -1.47049, in the DE1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Derby.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981301D01469
- Council area
- Derby
- Police force
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 6000
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 December 1980.
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing 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 1981301D01469 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 1981.