A61 crash in Chesterfield on 15 August 2001 at 07:50 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo, a bicycle and a bus or coach were involved in a crash on the A61 in Chesterfield at 07:50 on Wednesday 15 August 2001. The male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Aug 2001
- Wednesday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Mondeo and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.22681, longitude -1.42506, in the S40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chesterfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rother, Chesterfield, S40 2SE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200130C000551
- Council area
- Chesterfield
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 61
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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 slight injury crash on 30 December 2002.
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A61 in Chesterfield, 30 December 2002
At the same spotRef 200230C000928
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A61 in Chesterfield, 6 February 2016
At the same spotRef 2016300017886
Slight
Derbi GPR 50 crash on the A61 in Chesterfield, 17 November 2001
At the same spotRef 200130C000797
Serious
Ford Transit Connect crash on the A61 in Chesterfield, 25 June 2024
5 m awayRef 2024302400901
Fatal
Fiat Panda crash on the A61 in Chesterfield, 6 January 2021
17 m awayRef 2021302100023
Slight
Alfa Romeo Mito crash on the A61 in Chesterfield, 8 May 2015
22 m awayRef 2015300013728
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 3: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, 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 200130C000551 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.