B6543 crash in Chesterfield on 15 June 2003 at 03:30 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on the B6543 in Chesterfield at 03:30 on Sunday 15 June 2003. A 41-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
- 15 Jun 2003
- Sunday, 03:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.23706, longitude -1.42447, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Chesterfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200330C000365
- Council area
- Chesterfield
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 6057
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 9 October 2016.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B6543 in Chesterfield, 9 October 2016
1 m awayRef 2016301600611
Slight
Car crash on the B6543 in Chesterfield, 20 April 2002
10 m awayRef 200230C000284
Slight
Toyota MR2 crash on the B6543 in Chesterfield, 9 July 2005
10 m awayRef 200530C000417
Serious
Skoda Citigo crash on the B6543 in Chesterfield, 31 May 2017
12 m awayRef 2017301700937
Slight
Car crash on the B6543 in Chesterfield, 7 December 2022
13 m awayRef 2022302202144
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B6543 in Chesterfield, 29 June 2001
14 m awayRef 200130C000430
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 41, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
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 200330C000365 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.