B6543 crash in Chesterfield on 17 December 2001 at 13:15 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra and a Renault Kangoo van were involved in a crash on the B6543 in Chesterfield at 13:15 on Monday 17 December 2001. The 29-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Vectra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2001
- Monday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Vectra and Renault Kangoo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.23715, longitude -1.42492, in the S41 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chesterfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Spire, Chesterfield, S40 1QX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chesterfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200130C000906
- 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
- 6543
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 9 April 2005.
Slight
Taxi crash on the B6543 in Chesterfield, 9 April 2005
At the same spotRef 200530C000204
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6543 in Chesterfield, 13 November 2002
At the same spotRef 200230C000779
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B6543 in Chesterfield, 13 March 2014
At the same spotRef 2014300005851
Slight
Car crash on the B6543 in Chesterfield, 15 December 2012
At the same spotRef 201230C002609
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B6543 in Chesterfield, 13 April 2016
At the same spotRef 2016300018813
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B6543 in Chesterfield, 11 September 2007
At the same spotRef 200730C000556
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Kangoo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 200130C000906 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.