Serious unclassified road crash in Erewash NG10 on 3 August 2001 at 18:30 involving a Vauxhall Nova
A Vauxhall Nova and another vehicle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Erewash at 18:30 on Friday 3 August 2001. A 10-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Vauxhall Nova was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Aug 2001
- Friday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Nova and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.88498, longitude -1.29718, in the NG10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Long Eaton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sawley, Erewash, NG10 3BZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200130A000431
- Council area
- Erewash
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200130A000431 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 2001.