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Unclassified road crash in Derby DE3 on 29 October 1997 at 18:00 involving a bicycle

A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Derby at 18:00 on Wednesday 29 October 1997. The 14-year-old male cyclist 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 crossroads.

Severity
Slight
Date
29 Oct 1997
Wednesday, 18:00
Vehicles
2
Bicycle and car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.91424, longitude -1.54193, in the DE3 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
1997307D00879
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
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
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 4 December 1987.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Tree
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    14 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Female

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Cyclist

    Slight

    Male, aged 14, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)

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 1997307D00879 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.