C road crash in Erewash DE7 on 5 May 2003 at 12:29 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Suzuki motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Erewash at 12:29 on Monday 5 May 2003. The 26-year-old male rider of the Suzuki motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 May 2003
- Monday, 12:29
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.94248, longitude -1.29223, in the DE7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stanton-by-Dale. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kirk Hallam & Stanton-by-Dale, Erewash, DE7 4QR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200330A000246
- Council area
- Erewash
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 April 2004.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on a C road in Erewash, 25 April 2004
14 m awayRef 200430A000225
Serious
Porsche Boxster crash on a C road in Erewash, 1 June 2023
30 m awayRef 2023302300855
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Erewash, 16 January 2024
47 m awayRef 2024302400111
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Erewash, 9 August 1979
63 m awayRef 1979309A01291
Serious
Ford C-Max crash on a C road in Erewash, 13 November 2024
63 m awayRef 2024302401623
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Erewash, 15 July 1988
63 m awayRef 1988308A00425
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 749 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki)
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 200330A000246 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 2003.