C road crash in South Derbyshire DE73 on 5 November 1989 at 08:20 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in South Derbyshire at 08:20 on Sunday 5 November 1989. The 30-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Nov 1989
- Sunday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.82729, longitude -1.39592, in the DE73 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Derbyshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989309D01013
- Council area
- South Derbyshire
- Police force
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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 serious injury crash on 18 February 1979.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in South Derbyshire, 18 February 1979
At the same spotRef 1979309D00518
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on a C road in South Derbyshire, 9 July 2000
14 m awayRef 200030D000561
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on an unclassified road in South Derbyshire, 29 August 2025
31 m awayRef 2025302501607
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in South Derbyshire, 6 June 1982
100 m awayRef 1982302D01604
Fatal
Mazda 323 crash on a C road in South Derbyshire, 25 October 1992
100 m awayRef 1992302D00961
Slight
Car crash on a C road in South Derbyshire, 8 April 1984
100 m awayRef 1984304D00490
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,700 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 1989309D01013 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 1989.