Serious A632 crash in Bolsover on 31 December 1997 at 09:35 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on the A632 in Bolsover at 09:35 on Wednesday 31 December 1997. The 61-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was seriously injured and the 37-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Dec 1997
- Wednesday, 09:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.22311, longitude -1.28552, in the S44 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bolsover.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997307C00920
- Council area
- Bolsover
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 632
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 January 1980.
Slight
Van crash on the A632 in Bolsover, 9 January 1980
At the same spotRef 1980300C00065
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bolsover, 25 March 1983
At the same spotRef 1983303C00628
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A632 in Bolsover, 22 December 1988
At the same spotRef 1988308C00957
Slight
Car crash on the A632 in Bolsover, 8 June 1989
At the same spotRef 1989309C00386
Serious
Car crash on the A632 in Bolsover, 28 April 1979
At the same spotRef 1979309C00942
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A632 in Bolsover, 26 September 1997
At the same spotRef 1997307C00641
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 1997307C00920 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 1997.