B6543 crash in Chesterfield on 4 January 2003 at 11:15 involving a Mitsubishi L200 van
A Mitsubishi L200 van hit a pedestrian on the B6543 in Chesterfield at 11:15 on Saturday 4 January 2003. A 16-year-old male pedestrian was 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
- 4 Jan 2003
- Saturday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mitsubishi L200
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.23445, longitude -1.42451, in the S41 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chesterfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Spire, Chesterfield, S40 1QX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200330C000011
- Council area
- Chesterfield
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6543
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 slight injury crash on 16 November 2008.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6543 in Chesterfield, 16 November 2008
At the same spotRef 200830C000693
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B6543 in Chesterfield, 18 December 2005
20 m awayRef 200530C000866
Slight
Leyland crash on the B6543 in Chesterfield, 24 November 2003
20 m awayRef 200330C000762
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6543 in Chesterfield, 15 August 2009
20 m awayRef 200930C000403
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B6543 in Chesterfield, 29 April 2005
20 m awayRef 200530C000249
Slight
BMW 7 Series crash on the B6543 in Chesterfield, 27 July 2002
20 m awayRef 200230C000578
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi L200
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,477 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi L200)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200330C000011 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chesterfield road accident statistics for 2003.