Unclassified road crash in Derby DE21 on 24 December 2013 at 01:20 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo crashed on an unclassified road in Derby at 01:20 on Tuesday 24 December 2013. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2013
- Tuesday, 01:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.92638, longitude -1.42325, in the DE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Derby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chaddesden East, Derby, DE21 6UW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Derby
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013300004480
- Council area
- Derby
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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 unlit
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 95 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 November 1992.
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 20 November 1992
95 m awayRef 1992302D01049
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 24 December 1991
95 m awayRef 1991301D01089
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A6005 in Derby, 11 June 1993
95 m awayRef 1993303D00469
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 13 August 1990
95 m awayRef 1990300D00740
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 26 May 1984
114 m awayRef 1984304D00416
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 28 October 1988
114 m awayRef 1988308D00915
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
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 2013300004480 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 2013.