B5003 crash in South Derbyshire on 30 January 1985 at 06:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the B5003 in South Derbyshire at 06:00 on Wednesday 30 January 1985. The 34-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jan 1985
- Wednesday, 06:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.73451, longitude -1.55715, in the DE12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Derbyshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985305D00065
- Council area
- South Derbyshire
- Police force
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5003
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 September 1983.
Serious
Van crash on the B5003 in South Derbyshire, 13 September 1983
100 m awayRef 1983303D02439
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B5003 in South Derbyshire, 21 June 2000
126 m awayRef 200030D000513
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Derbyshire, 22 November 1979
200 m awayRef 1979309D03212
Slight
Seat Leon crash on an unclassified road in South Derbyshire, 22 August 2017
203 m awayRef 2017301701390
Slight
Car crash on the B5003 in South Derbyshire, 23 February 1982
224 m awayRef 1982302D00532
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in South Derbyshire, 14 October 1983
283 m awayRef 1983303D02751
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, 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 1985305D00065 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Derbyshire road accident statistics for 1985.