Unclassified road crash in Derby DE1 on 16 May 2003 at 20:16 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 crashed on an unclassified road in Derby at 20:16 on Friday 16 May 2003. The 54-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 May 2003
- Friday, 20:16
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.9236, longitude -1.48427, in the DE1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Derby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Arboretum, Derby, DE1 1NN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200330D000367
- Council area
- Derby
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 601
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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The nearest, 2 metres away, was a fatal crash on 9 September 2018.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
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 200330D000367 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Derby road accident statistics for 2003.