Serious unclassified road crash in Erewash DE7 on 4 February 2007 at 18:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Erewash at 18:00 on Sunday 4 February 2007. The 22-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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
- 4 Feb 2007
- Sunday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.99276, longitude -1.31211, in the DE7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ilkeston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cotmanhay, Erewash, DE7 8RX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Erewash
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200730A000073
- Council area
- Erewash
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
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
- 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
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 26 May 2003.
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Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Erewash, 24 May 2012
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Slight
Ford Capri crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 12 August 1993
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Slight
Toyota Celica crash on an unclassified road in Erewash, 12 May 1993
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 200730A000073 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Erewash road accident statistics for 2007.