Serious A601 crash in Derby on 28 May 2005 at 17:52 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 May 2005
- Saturday, 17:52
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.91905, longitude -1.47064, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200530D000353
- Council area
- Derby
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 601
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Daylight
- 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%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 April 2013.
Slight
Optare crash on the A601 in Derby, 29 April 2013
10 m awayRef 201330D000716
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A601 in Derby, 4 April 2001
10 m awayRef 200130D000278
Slight
BMW R Series crash on the A601 in Derby, 18 June 2025
10 m awayRef 2025302500940
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A601 in Derby, 22 February 2019
12 m awayRef 2019301900210
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A601 in Derby, 17 July 2021
16 m awayRef 2021302101104
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the A601 in Derby, 23 May 2015
22 m awayRef 2015300016767
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 32, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
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 200530D000353 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 2005.