B6540 crash in Erewash on 15 April 2000 at 14:00 involving a Ford Transit minibus
A Ford Transit minibus and a Lada Riva were involved in a crash on the B6540 in Erewash at 14:00 on Saturday 15 April 2000. An 8-year-old female passenger in the Lada Riva and a 7-year-old female passenger in the Lada Riva were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Apr 2000
- Saturday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Lada Riva
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.8786, longitude -1.29891, in the NG10 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200030A000244
- Council area
- Erewash
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6540
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 December 2018.
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the B6540 in Erewash, 11 December 2018
4 m awayRef 2018301801760
Slight
BMW R 1200 crash on the B6540 in Erewash, 28 January 2012
20 m awayRef 201230D000235
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B6540 in Erewash, 22 August 1999
22 m awayRef 199930A000478
Serious
Hyundai ix35 crash on a C road in Erewash, 28 January 2015
22 m awayRef 2015300011950
Slight
Kia Venga crash on the B6540 in Erewash, 8 June 2021
31 m awayRef 2021302100809
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B6590 in Erewash, 7 August 2003
32 m awayRef 200330A000443
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Minibus (8 to 16 seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Lada Riva
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,294 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 8, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Lada Riva)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 7, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Lada Riva)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 200030A000244 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 2000.