Unclassified road crash in Derby DE3 on 20 October 1981 at 12:25 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Derby at 12:25 on Tuesday 20 October 1981. The 65-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Oct 1981
- Tuesday, 12:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.90972, longitude -1.53603, in the DE3 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
- 1981301D02804
- Council area
- Derby
- Police force
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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 2 December 1989.
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 4 September 1981
At the same spotRef 1981301D02306
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Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 6 March 2003
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Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 28 November 2005
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 1981301D02804 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.