B5006 crash in South Derbyshire on 26 August 2002 at 14:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Peugeot 306 were involved in a crash on the B5006 in South Derbyshire at 14:30 on Monday 26 August 2002. The 19-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus and a 42-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Aug 2002
- Monday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.77517, longitude -1.48158, in the LE65 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Derbyshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200230D000755
- Council area
- South Derbyshire
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5006
- 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
- 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
- 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 16 October 2015.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B5006 in South Derbyshire, 16 October 2015
At the same spotRef 2015300016291
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the B5006 in South Derbyshire, 16 December 2001
At the same spotRef 200130D001083
Serious
Vauxhall Corsavan crash on the B5006 in South Derbyshire, 24 March 2010
At the same spotRef 201030D000256
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B5006 in South Derbyshire, 21 December 2015
At the same spotRef 2015300017245
Serious
Honda VFR800F crash on the B5006 in South Derbyshire, 17 September 2019
3 m awayRef 2019301901297
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the B5006 in South Derbyshire, 27 September 2019
5 m awayRef 2019301901355
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200230D000755 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Derbyshire road accident statistics for 2002.