A444 crash in South Derbyshire on 21 June 1986 at 23:25 involving a car
A car crashed on the A444 in South Derbyshire at 23:25 on Saturday 21 June 1986. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jun 1986
- Saturday, 23:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.72463, longitude -1.56021, 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
- 1986306D00486
- Council area
- South Derbyshire
- Police force
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 444
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 29 March 1985.
Serious
Car crash on the A444 in South Derbyshire, 29 March 1985
At the same spotRef 1985305D00189
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A444 in South Derbyshire, 22 October 1985
At the same spotRef 1985305D00773
Slight
Rover 45 crash on the A444 in South Derbyshire, 30 October 2010
61 m awayRef 201030D001069
Fatal
Seat Ibiza crash on the A444 in South Derbyshire, 31 October 2024
67 m awayRef 2024302401575
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A444 in South Derbyshire, 24 November 2025
69 m awayRef 2025302501900
Serious
Seat Inca crash on the A444 in South Derbyshire, 5 November 1999
85 m awayRef 199930D000923
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, 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 1986306D00486 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 1986.