Serious B6418 crash in Bolsover on 16 November 2001 at 15:48 involving a Land Rover Defender
A motorcycle, a Land Rover Defender and a Renault Clio were involved in a crash on the B6418 in Bolsover at 15:48 on Friday 16 November 2001. The 23-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Nov 2001
- Friday, 15:48
- Vehicles
- 3
- Land Rover Defender and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.27705, longitude -1.26002, in the S43 postcode district and within the built-up area of Clowne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Clowne East, Bolsover, S43 4PH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bolsover
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200130C000803
- Council area
- Bolsover
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6418
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 December 2017.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B6418 in Bolsover, 15 December 2017
14 m awayRef 2017301702050
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B6418 in Bolsover, 10 October 2015
22 m awayRef 2015300016279
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on an unclassified road in Bolsover, 30 July 2000
32 m awayRef 200030C000515
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Bolsover, 9 January 2003
36 m awayRef 200330C000022
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on an unclassified road in Bolsover, 30 October 2023
38 m awayRef 2023302301660
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6418 in Bolsover, 24 January 1983
45 m awayRef 1983303C00155
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Defender
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 3: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 23, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 200130C000803 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bolsover road accident statistics for 2001.