A52 crash in Derby on 29 March 1990 at 06:15 involving a Puch motorcycle
A car and a Puch motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A52 in Derby at 06:15 on Thursday 29 March 1990. The 18-year-old male rider of the Puch motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Mar 1990
- Thursday, 06:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Puch
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.92391, longitude -1.48828, in the DE1 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
- 1990300D00282
- Council area
- Derby
- Police force
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 52
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 March 1998.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A52 in Derby, 24 March 1998
At the same spotRef 1998308D00254
Slight
Car crash on the A52 in Derby, 18 October 1979
At the same spotRef 1979309D02819
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A52 in Derby, 19 May 1985
At the same spotRef 1985305D00306
Serious
Car crash on the A52 in Derby, 22 December 1985
At the same spotRef 1985305D01022
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the A52 in Derby, 8 February 2023
82 m awayRef 2023302300259
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A52 in Derby, 14 April 2015
85 m awayRef 2015300013283
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Vehicle 2: Puch
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Puch)
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 1990300D00282 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 1990.