Serious unclassified road crash in Derby DE1 on 9 July 2004 at 23:40 involving a Honda Prelude
A Honda Prelude and a Citroen C2 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Derby at 23:40 on Friday 9 July 2004. There were five casualties: three people were seriously injured and two were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Jul 2004
- Friday, 23:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Prelude and Citroen C2
- Casualties
- 5
- 3 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.91893, longitude -1.4635, in the DE1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Derby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Alvaston North, Derby, DE24 8HS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200430D000576
- Council area
- Derby
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Prelude
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,150 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen C2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Prelude)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C2)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C2)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C2)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 5: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C2)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 200430D000576 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 2004.