C road crash in Derby DE22 on 26 September 1985 at 08:38 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Derby at 08:38 on Thursday 26 September 1985. A 12-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Sep 1985
- Thursday, 08:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.95802, longitude -1.47597, in the DE22 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
- 1985305D00685
- Council area
- Derby
- Police force
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- 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 5 October 1982.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A6 in Derby, 5 October 1982
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Slight
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At the same spotRef 1980300D03518
Slight
Alfa Romeo 164 crash on the A6 in Erewash, 18 February 1995
At the same spotRef 1995305A00106
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A6 in Derby, 18 August 1982
At the same spotRef 1982302D02305
Slight
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Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A6 in Derby, 28 July 2008
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, 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 1985305D00685 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.