A61 crash in Chesterfield on 23 July 1995 at 13:20 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A61 in Chesterfield at 13:20 on Sunday 23 July 1995. The 43-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jul 1995
- Sunday, 13:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.23104, longitude -1.42321, in the S40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chesterfield.
Map of where the crash happened in Chesterfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1995305C00461
- Council area
- Chesterfield
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 61
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 617
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 slight injury crash on 20 May 1996.
Slight
Foden crash on the A61 in Chesterfield, 20 May 1996
At the same spotRef 1996306C00312
Serious
Car crash on the A61 in Chesterfield, 5 July 1980
At the same spotRef 1980300C01357
Serious
Bus crash on the A61 in Chesterfield, 10 April 1979
At the same spotRef 1979309C00806
Slight
Car crash on the A61 in Chesterfield, 22 September 1981
At the same spotRef 1981301C02043
Slight
Car crash on the A61 in Chesterfield, 20 February 1995
At the same spotRef 1995305C00120
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on the A61 in Chesterfield, 27 August 1998
At the same spotRef 1998308C00578
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, 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 1995305C00461 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chesterfield road accident statistics for 1995.