Serious A61 crash in Chesterfield on 1 February 2006 at 09:00 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the A61 in Chesterfield at 09:00 on Wednesday 1 February 2006. The 20-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Feb 2006
- Wednesday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.27412, longitude -1.44947, in the S41 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dunston, Chesterfield, S41 9RT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chesterfield
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200630C000055
- Council area
- Chesterfield
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 61
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 61
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2002.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A61 in Chesterfield, 17 December 2002
At the same spotRef 200230C000889
Slight
Car crash on the A61 in Chesterfield, 26 December 1980
22 m awayRef 1980300C02908
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A61 in Chesterfield, 4 March 2007
67 m awayRef 200730C000148
Serious
Van crash on the A61 in Chesterfield, 22 February 1989
81 m awayRef 1989309C00139
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A61 in Chesterfield, 8 July 2002
100 m awayRef 200230C000470
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A61 in Chesterfield, 25 July 2004
104 m awayRef 200430C000460
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside, crossed central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 200630C000055 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chesterfield road accident statistics for 2006.