A5111 crash in Derby on 12 January 2001 at 20:45 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Suzuki SJ were involved in a crash on the A5111 in Derby at 20:45 on Friday 12 January 2001. The 25-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jan 2001
- Friday, 20:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Suzuki SJ
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.89768, longitude -1.4761, in the DE23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Derby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Normanton, Derby, DE23 8RX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200130D000029
- Council area
- Derby
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5111
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 October 2002.
Slight
Car crash on the A5111 in Derby, 9 October 2002
At the same spotRef 200230D000956
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A5111 in Derby, 11 September 2000
At the same spotRef 200030D000740
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A5111 in Derby, 21 May 2009
At the same spotRef 200930D000385
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A5111 in Derby, 20 October 2023
4 m awayRef 2023302301625
Slight
Mercedes Cla Class crash on the A5111 in Derby, 12 May 2019
5 m awayRef 2019301900639
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A5111 in Derby, 28 February 2025
8 m awayRef 2025302500315
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,700 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki SJ
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,324 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200130D000029 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Derby road accident statistics for 2001.