A6005 crash in Erewash on 6 December 2007 at 15:47 involving a Toyota
A Toyota and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on the A6005 in Erewash at 15:47 on Thursday 6 December 2007. The 80-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Vectra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 2007
- Thursday, 15:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.89473, longitude -1.33656, in the DE72 postcode district and within the built-up area of Breaston and Draycott. It is one of the crashes that make up the Draycott & Risley, Erewash, DE72 3PX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Erewash
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200730A000666
- Council area
- Erewash
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6005
- 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
- Daylight
- 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 20 September 2002.
Slight
Kawasaki ER500 crash on the A6005 in Erewash, 20 September 2002
At the same spotRef 200230A000560
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A6005 in Erewash, 21 February 2019
6 m awayRef 2019301900147
Serious
Volvo crash on the A6005 in Erewash, 16 December 2015
10 m awayRef 2015300017176
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A6005 in Erewash, 25 August 2011
10 m awayRef 201130D000853
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A6005 in Erewash, 6 July 2019
21 m awayRef 2019301900916
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Erewash, 23 January 2025
24 m awayRef 2025302500411
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,184 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 80 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,799 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 80, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 200730A000666 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.