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Fatal A60 crash in Bolsover on 24 January 1987 at 22:10 involving a car

A car hit two pedestrians on the A60 in Bolsover at 22:10 on Saturday 24 January 1987. A 17-year-old male pedestrian was killed and a male pedestrian and the 32-year-old female driver were slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Fatal
Date
24 Jan 1987
Saturday, 22:10
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
3
1 killed, 2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.2683, longitude -1.18431, in the S80 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Bolsover

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  • 1 crash
  • Fatal

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1987307C00044
Council area
Bolsover
Police force
Derbyshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
60
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
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 November 2004.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    32 years

Casualties (3)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Fatal

    Male, aged 17, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

  • Casualty 2: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, not crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic

  • Casualty 3: Driver

    Slight

    Female, aged 32, 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 1987307C00044 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bolsover road accident statistics for 1987.