Serious unclassified road crash in Derby DE22 on 20 September 2008 at 11:40 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Derby at 11:40 on Saturday 20 September 2008. A 78-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Sep 2008
- Saturday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.92815, longitude -1.51947, in the DE22 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mackworth & New Zealand, Derby, DE22 4AG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Derby
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200830D000748
- Council area
- Derby
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- C
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 5 December 2011.
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on a C road in Derby, 5 December 2011
At the same spotRef 201130D001276
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Derby, 9 February 2001
10 m awayRef 200130D000122
Slight
Optare crash on a C road in Derby, 5 November 2012
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Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Derby, 20 May 2003
20 m awayRef 200330D000381
Slight
Volvo V70 crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 13 April 2011
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Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Derby, 17 April 2001
30 m awayRef 200130D000319
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 78, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 200830D000748 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 2008.