Serious A6005 crash in Erewash on 6 March 2011 at 22:18 involving a Vauxhall Astravan
A Vauxhall Astravan and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the A6005 in Erewash at 22:18 on Sunday 6 March 2011. A 30-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astravan was seriously injured and the 27-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astravan and the male driver of the Ford Mondeo were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Mar 2011
- Sunday, 22:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astravan and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.90648, longitude -1.38128, in the DE72 postcode district and within the built-up area of Borrowash. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ockbrook & Borrowash, Erewash, DE72 3HQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201130D000253
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 5010
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
- 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, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 September 2020.
Serious
Mazda RX8 crash on the A6005 in Erewash, 23 September 2020
7 m awayRef 2020302001025
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A6005 in Erewash, 7 April 2025
9 m awayRef 2025302500633
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A6005 in Erewash, 4 September 1999
10 m awayRef 199930A000513
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A6005 in Erewash, 26 April 2004
10 m awayRef 200430A000228
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B5010 in Erewash, 7 July 2013
20 m awayRef 2013300001231
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A6005 in Erewash, 13 September 1999
20 m awayRef 199930A000532
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astravan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astravan)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astravan)
- 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 201130D000253 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 2011.