Serious unclassified road crash in Chesterfield S40 on 16 November 1998 at 17:13 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Chesterfield at 17:13 on Monday 16 November 1998. A 10-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Nov 1998
- Monday, 17:13
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.23737, longitude -1.43062, in the S40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chesterfield.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998308C00833
- Council area
- Chesterfield
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 17 September 1985.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Chesterfield, 17 September 1985
At the same spotRef 1985305C00591
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Chesterfield, 18 April 1998
At the same spotRef 1998308C00265
Slight
MG Metro crash on a C road in Chesterfield, 3 April 1993
At the same spotRef 1993303C00220
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Chesterfield, 3 January 1980
At the same spotRef 1980300C00044
Slight
Ford Granada crash on a C road in Chesterfield, 16 October 1995
At the same spotRef 1995305C00662
Slight
MG Metro crash on a C road in Chesterfield, 18 January 1996
At the same spotRef 1996306C00040
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 1998308C00833 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chesterfield road accident statistics for 1998.