C road crash in Derby DE1 on 10 March 2001 at 23:15 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
Six vehicles, including a Vauxhall Cavalier and a Vauxhall Omega, were involved in a crash on a C road in Derby at 23:15 on Saturday 10 March 2001. A 29-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Cavalier and a 29-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Omega were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Mar 2001
- Saturday, 23:15
- Vehicles
- 6
- Vauxhall Cavalier and 5 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.92203, longitude -1.49485, in the DE1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Derby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Darley, Derby, DE22 3HW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200130D000211
- Council area
- Derby
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- C
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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 6 September 2009.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Derby, 6 September 2009
At the same spotRef 200930D000694
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Derby, 2 October 2025
3 m awayRef 2025302501585
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 3 July 2022
7 m awayRef 2022302201116
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 28 July 2003
10 m awayRef 200330D000591
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on a C road in Derby, 2 April 2008
10 m awayRef 200830D000253
Slight
Suzuki crash on a C road in Derby, 14 October 2008
10 m awayRef 200830D000845
Vehicles involved (6)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Omega
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,962 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 957 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 4: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 5: Nissan Sunny
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 6: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Omega)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 200130D000211 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.