Serious B6050 crash in Chesterfield on 10 July 2001 at 16:46 involving a Ford Fiesta
A bus or coach and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the B6050 in Chesterfield at 16:46 on Tuesday 10 July 2001. A 51-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta and the 31-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta were seriously injured and a 4-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Jul 2001
- Tuesday, 16:46
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bus or coach and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 3
- 2 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.25926, longitude -1.42432, in the S41 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chesterfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whittington Moor, Chesterfield, S41 8LW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200130C000451
- Council area
- Chesterfield
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6050
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 October 2007.
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B6050 in Chesterfield, 12 October 2007
10 m awayRef 200730C000601
Slight
Honda crash on the B6050 in Chesterfield, 3 July 2001
20 m awayRef 200130C000434
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B6050 in Chesterfield, 5 August 2007
20 m awayRef 200730C000476
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6050 in Chesterfield, 14 April 2016
28 m awayRef 2016300018828
Serious
Car crash on the B6050 in Chesterfield, 17 November 2025
29 m awayRef 2025302501889
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6050 in Chesterfield, 30 September 2001
30 m awayRef 200130C000652
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 4, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200130C000451 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 2001.