C road crash in Erewash DE72 on 25 April 2012 at 16:20 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on a C road in Erewash at 16:20 on Wednesday 25 April 2012. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Apr 2012
- Wednesday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.891, longitude -1.31298, in the DE72 postcode district and within the built-up area of Long Eaton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Breaston, Erewash, DE72 3DZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Erewash
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201230D000740
- Council area
- Erewash
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 November 2017.
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on a C road in Erewash, 8 November 2017
19 m awayRef 2017301701796
Slight
Alfa Romeo 156 crash on a C road in Erewash, 12 August 2009
20 m awayRef 200930A000410
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Erewash, 1 October 1979
45 m awayRef 1979309A01618
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Erewash, 10 December 1990
45 m awayRef 1990300A00874
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on a C road in Erewash, 9 June 1996
45 m awayRef 1996306A00374
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Erewash, 11 June 1998
45 m awayRef 1998308A00366
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 201230D000740 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.