A619 crash in Bolsover on 17 April 2002 at 20:55 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A619 in Bolsover at 20:55 on Wednesday 17 April 2002. The 19-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta and the 21-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Apr 2002
- Wednesday, 20:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.28933, longitude -1.2121, in the S80 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitwell, Bolsover, S80 4ST area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bolsover
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200230C000294
- Council area
- Bolsover
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 619
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 June 2017.
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A619 in Bolsover, 29 June 2017
3 m awayRef 2017301701169
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A619 in Bolsover, 21 March 2001
10 m awayRef 200130C000192
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A619 in Bolsover, 1 April 2012
10 m awayRef 201230C000788
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A619 in Bolsover, 25 August 2022
19 m awayRef 2022302201479
Serious
Car crash on the A619 in Bolsover, 9 August 1985
28 m awayRef 1985305C00498
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A619 in Bolsover, 7 May 2021
32 m awayRef 2021302100578
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
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 200230C000294 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 2002.