A6005 crash in Erewash on 20 September 2002 at 18:20 involving a Kawasaki ER500 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ER500 motorcycle, a Ford Fiesta and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the A6005 in Erewash at 18:20 on Friday 20 September 2002. The 19-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ER500 motorcycle 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
- 20 Sep 2002
- Friday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 3
- Kawasaki ER500 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.89473, longitude -1.33656, in the DE72 postcode district and within the built-up area of Breaston and Draycott. It is one of the crashes that make up the Draycott & Risley, Erewash, DE72 3PX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Erewash
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200230A000560
- Council area
- Erewash
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6005
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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 6 December 2007.
Slight
Toyota crash on the A6005 in Erewash, 6 December 2007
At the same spotRef 200730A000666
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A6005 in Erewash, 21 February 2019
6 m awayRef 2019301900147
Serious
Volvo crash on the A6005 in Erewash, 16 December 2015
10 m awayRef 2015300017176
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A6005 in Erewash, 25 August 2011
10 m awayRef 201130D000853
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A6005 in Erewash, 6 July 2019
21 m awayRef 2019301900916
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Erewash, 23 January 2025
24 m awayRef 2025302500411
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ER500
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 3: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ER500)
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 200230A000560 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Erewash road accident statistics for 2002.