Serious C road crash in Derby DE24 on 18 April 1999 at 03:35 involving an Austin Montego
An Austin Montego crashed on a C road in Derby at 03:35 on Sunday 18 April 1999. The 20-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Apr 1999
- Sunday, 03:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Austin Montego
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.88844, longitude -1.48186, in the DE24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Derby.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199930D000299
- Council area
- Derby
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Austin Montego
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Austin Montego)
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 199930D000299 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 1999.