Unclassified road crash in Derby DE23 on 21 January 1985 at 07:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Derby at 07:45 on Monday 21 January 1985. A 52-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jan 1985
- Monday, 07:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.89158, longitude -1.49461, 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
- 1985305D00041
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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 19 March 1996.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 19 March 1996
At the same spotRef 1996306D00243
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 1 April 2007
60 m awayRef 200730D000246
Serious
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 14 October 2011
81 m awayRef 201130D001065
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 17 July 2003
81 m awayRef 200330D000562
Serious
Mercedes A Class crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 8 June 2021
86 m awayRef 2021302100818
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 24 May 1999
95 m awayRef 199930D000416
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 52, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 1985305D00041 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 1985.