Serious unclassified road crash in Derby DE24 on 22 December 1985 at 01:25 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Derby at 01:25 on Sunday 22 December 1985. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Dec 1985
- Sunday, 01:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.90031, longitude -1.43802, in the DE24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Derby.
Map of where the crash happened in Derby
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985305D01017
- 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
- 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
- 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 15 October 1997.
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Ford Escort crash on the A6 in Derby, 15 October 1997
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Car crash on the A6 in Derby, 20 July 1985
At the same spotRef 1985305D00490
Slight
Bedford crash on the A6 in Derby, 1 February 1991
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Serious
Bicycle crash on the A6 in Derby, 3 December 1984
At the same spotRef 1984304D01116
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 13 January 2000
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 19, hit by 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 1985305D01017 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.