Unclassified road crash in South Derbyshire DE65 on 17 August 2003 at 22:20 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on an unclassified road in South Derbyshire at 22:20 on Sunday 17 August 2003. The 20-year-old male driver 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
- 17 Aug 2003
- Sunday, 22:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.8364, longitude -1.52612, in the DE65 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200330D000658
- Council area
- South Derbyshire
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200330D000658 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Derbyshire road accident statistics for 2003.