Unclassified road crash in Erewash NG10 on 16 October 2014 at 08:55 involving a Toyota Avensis taxi
A Toyota Avensis taxi and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Erewash at 08:55 on Thursday 16 October 2014. The 41-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Zafira and a 9-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Zafira were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Oct 2014
- Thursday, 08:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Avensis and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.88489, longitude -1.29777, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Erewash
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014300009855
- Council area
- Erewash
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
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
- 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
- Fine, no 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 31 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 May 2025.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Erewash, 31 May 2025
31 m awayRef 2025302500843
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Erewash, 3 August 2001
41 m awayRef 200130A000431
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Erewash, 13 July 2021
61 m awayRef 2021302101024
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Erewash, 16 June 1989
86 m awayRef 1989309A00356
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Erewash, 30 January 2001
155 m awayRef 200130A000064
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Erewash, 17 March 1995
166 m awayRef 1995305A00170
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 9, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- 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 2014300009855 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.