C road crash in South Derbyshire DE73 on 10 October 2007 at 23:02 involving a Mazda 323
A Mazda 323 crashed on a C road in South Derbyshire at 23:02 on Wednesday 10 October 2007. A 16-year-old female passenger and an 18-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Oct 2007
- Wednesday, 23:02
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 323
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.82535, longitude -1.42726, in the DE73 postcode district and within the built-up area of Melbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Melbourne, South Derbyshire, DE73 8JN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Derbyshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200730D000809
- Council area
- South Derbyshire
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 323
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- 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
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,840 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda 323)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda 323)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 200730D000809 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Derbyshire road accident statistics for 2007.