A6 crash in Derby on 20 December 2009 at 22:15 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A6 in Derby at 22:15 on Sunday 20 December 2009. The 19-year-old male driver, a 24-year-old female passenger and a 22-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2009
- Sunday, 22:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.91838, longitude -1.46217, in the DE1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Alvaston North, Derby, DE24 8HS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Derby
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200930D001044
- Council area
- Derby
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 April 2007.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 2 April 2007
14 m awayRef 200730D000251
Serious
Seat Leon crash on the A6 in Derby, 9 October 2024
16 m awayRef 2024302401441
Slight
Piaggio NRG crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 4 August 2006
78 m awayRef 200630D000576
Serious
Honda Prelude crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 9 July 2004
108 m awayRef 200430D000576
Slight
LDV 400 Series crash on the A6 in Derby, 16 March 2010
108 m awayRef 201030D000226
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A6 in Derby, 3 September 2025
116 m awayRef 2025302501612
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- 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
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200930D001044 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 2009.