B6540 crash in Erewash on 7 June 2014 at 16:40 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Hyundai Coupe were involved in a crash on the B6540 in Erewash at 16:40 on Saturday 7 June 2014. The 81-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jun 2014
- Saturday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Hyundai Coupe
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.87843, longitude -1.29951, in the NG10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Long Eaton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sawley, Erewash, NG10 3BZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014300007398
- Council area
- Erewash
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6540
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 2018.
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the B6540 in Erewash, 8 December 2018
9 m awayRef 2018301801748
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B6540 in Erewash, 18 September 2007
10 m awayRef 200730A000522
Serious
Opel Manta crash on the B6540 in Erewash, 25 November 2000
10 m awayRef 200030A000734
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B6540 in Erewash, 22 August 1999
22 m awayRef 199930A000478
Slight
Suzuki GSXR 1000 crash on the B6540 in Erewash, 16 April 2006
32 m awayRef 200630A000208
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the B6540 in Erewash, 11 December 2018
41 m awayRef 2018301801760
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 81 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Hyundai Coupe
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,975 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 81, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2014300007398 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 2014.