A608 crash in Derby on 26 October 2005 at 20:27 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A608 in Derby at 20:27 on Wednesday 26 October 2005. The 28-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 44-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Oct 2005
- Wednesday, 20:27
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.94504, longitude -1.45395, in the DE21 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chaddesden North, Derby, DE21 4SB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Derby
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200530D000790
- Council area
- Derby
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 608
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 November 2001.
Slight
Gilera Runner 125 crash on the A608 in Derby, 7 November 2001
At the same spotRef 200130D000956
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on the A608 in Derby, 27 July 2009
At the same spotRef 200930D000590
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the A608 in Derby, 8 February 2019
5 m awayRef 2019301900119
Serious
Mitsubishi Mirage crash on the A608 in Derby, 29 July 2023
6 m awayRef 2023302301169
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 11 July 2025
8 m awayRef 2025302501083
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A608 in Derby, 26 September 2000
10 m awayRef 200030D000773
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 200530D000790 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.