Skip to main content
CrashStats

Serious unclassified road crash in Erewash DE21 on 12 August 1998 at 14:15 involving a bicycle

A vehicle and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Erewash at 14:15 on Wednesday 12 August 1998. The 14-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
12 Aug 1998
Wednesday, 14:15
Vehicles
2
Other vehicle and bicycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.9352, longitude -1.40334, in the DE21 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Erewash

Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.

  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1998308D00633
Council area
Erewash
Police force
Derbyshire
Highway authority
Derbyshire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres

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 fatal crash on 10 September 1982.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Other vehicle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    34 years

  • Vehicle 2: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    14 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Cyclist

    Serious

    Male, aged 14, on vehicle 2 (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 1998308D00633 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Erewash road accident statistics for 1998.