A50 crash in South Derbyshire on 26 April 2009 at 17:55 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A50 in South Derbyshire at 17:55 on Sunday 26 April 2009. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Apr 2009
- Sunday, 17:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.88496, longitude -1.73618, in the DE6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Doveridge & Sudbury, Derbyshire Dales, DE6 5AG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Derbyshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200930D000486
- Council area
- South Derbyshire
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 50
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 May 2024.
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Fatal
Suzuki GSX 1300 crash on the A50 in South Derbyshire, 6 June 2004
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Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A50 in South Derbyshire, 29 December 2025
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Skoda Octavia crash on the A50 in South Derbyshire, 28 March 2019
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- 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
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 200930D000486 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 2009.