C road crash in Erewash DE72 on 21 December 1982 at 20:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Erewash at 20:15 on Tuesday 21 December 1982. The 20-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 1982
- Tuesday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.90624, longitude -1.36657, in the DE72 postcode district and within the built-up area of Borrowash.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1982302A02394
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 5010
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 June 1994.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B5010 in Erewash, 14 June 1994
At the same spotRef 1994304E00150
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At the same spotRef 1984304A00261
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B5010 in Erewash, 11 June 2003
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Ford Fiesta crash on the B5010 in Erewash, 3 November 2010
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Serious
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 1982302A02394 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 1982.