C road crash in Chesterfield S43 on 21 January 2003 at 17:15 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on a C road in Chesterfield at 17:15 on Tuesday 21 January 2003. The 37-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jan 2003
- Tuesday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.26782, longitude -1.32645, in the S43 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Staveley North, Chesterfield, S43 3BN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200330C000051
- Council area
- Chesterfield
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Chesterfield, 6 December 2007
30 m awayRef 200730C000713
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Chesterfield, 19 July 2004
90 m awayRef 200430C000449
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Chesterfield, 18 June 1999
171 m awayRef 199930C000422
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Chesterfield, 14 May 1992
192 m awayRef 1992302C00272
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on a C road in Chesterfield, 23 June 2005
225 m awayRef 200530C000375
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Chesterfield, 15 January 1985
234 m awayRef 1985305C00029
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 200330C000051 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.