C road crash in Derby DE23 on 15 September 1997 at 15:20 involving a Peugeot 405 taxi
A Peugeot 405 taxi hit a pedestrian on a C road in Derby at 15:20 on Monday 15 September 1997. An 80-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Sep 1997
- Monday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 405
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.90765, longitude -1.46914, in the DE23 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
- 1997307D00743
- Council area
- Derby
- Police force
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 March 1982.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 12 March 1982
At the same spotRef 1982302D00734
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 16 June 1979
At the same spotRef 1979309D01580
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Derby, 19 August 1988
At the same spotRef 1988308D00673
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 4 February 1982
At the same spotRef 1982302D00362
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 11 December 1997
At the same spotRef 1997307D01044
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 19 October 1981
At the same spotRef 1981301D02791
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 405
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 80, hit by vehicle 1 (Peugeot 405)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1997307D00743 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.