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Unclassified road crash in Erewash DE7 on 30 November 1996 at 20:34 involving a Ford Escort

A Ford Escort crashed on an unclassified road in Erewash at 20:34 on Saturday 30 November 1996. A 16-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
30 Nov 1996
Saturday, 20:34
Vehicles
1
Ford Escort
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.99132, longitude -1.30872, in the DE7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ilkeston.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1996306A00765
Council area
Erewash
Police force
Derbyshire
Highway authority
Derbyshire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
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
Dark, street lights lit
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 14 November 1979.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Ford Escort

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    North West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded and overturned
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Engine capacity
    1,597 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    14 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)

    Car passenger
    Rear seat passenger

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 1996306A00765 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Erewash road accident statistics for 1996.