Serious unclassified road crash in Derby DE21 on 3 July 1997 at 18:25 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Derby at 18:25 on Thursday 3 July 1997. The 45-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Jul 1997
- Thursday, 18:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.92908, longitude -1.43764, in the DE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Derby.
Map of where the crash happened in Derby
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997307D00525
- Council area
- Derby
- Police force
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 21 March 1980.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 21 March 1980
At the same spotRef 1980300D00808
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 14 May 2001
45 m awayRef 200130D000400
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 14 August 2012
50 m awayRef 201230D001750
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 28 April 2024
51 m awayRef 2024302400588
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 22 March 2005
85 m awayRef 200530D000186
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 2 February 1979
100 m awayRef 1979309D00382
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 45, 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 1997307D00525 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 1997.