Serious C road crash in Derby DE21 on 12 October 2003 at 04:34 involving a Renault 21
A Renault 21 crashed on a C road in Derby at 04:34 on Sunday 12 October 2003. The 31-year-old male driver was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Oct 2003
- Sunday, 04:34
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault 21
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.9202, longitude -1.42824, in the DE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Derby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chaddesden East, Derby, DE21 6TJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200330D000849
- Council area
- Derby
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 February 2005.
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Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on a C road in Derby, 27 March 2003
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Slight
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Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Derby, 29 May 2013
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault 21
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault 21)
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 200330D000849 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.