A6005 crash in Erewash on 24 March 2012 at 19:30 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Vauxhall Tigra were involved in a crash on the A6005 in Erewash at 19:30 on Saturday 24 March 2012. The 26-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series was 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
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Mar 2012
- Saturday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Vauxhall Tigra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.89697, longitude -1.3505, in the DE72 postcode district and within the built-up area of Breaston and Draycott.
Map of where the crash happened in Erewash
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201230D000571
- Council area
- Erewash
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Unclassified
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 November 2016.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A6005 in Erewash, 22 November 2016
7 m awayRef 2016301600722
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A6005 in Erewash, 5 December 2023
15 m awayRef 2023302301870
Slight
Car crash on the A6005 in Erewash, 11 October 1982
22 m awayRef 1982302A01807
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A6005 in Erewash, 20 March 2011
22 m awayRef 201130D000299
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A6005 in Erewash, 1 November 1989
81 m awayRef 1989309A00725
Serious
Car crash on the A6005 in Erewash, 29 March 1980
81 m awayRef 1980300A00526
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,979 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Tigra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 201230D000571 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 2012.