C road crash in Erewash DE7 on 1 December 2015 at 18:10 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Vauxhall Combo were involved in a crash on a C road in Erewash at 18:10 on Tuesday 1 December 2015. The 36-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf, a 40-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Golf and the 54-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Combo were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 2015
- Tuesday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Vauxhall Combo
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.96433, longitude -1.369, in the DE7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Erewash
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015300016962
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 January 2003.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on a C road in Erewash, 24 January 2003
20 m awayRef 200330A000039
Slight
Ford Granada crash on a C road in Erewash, 25 December 2000
20 m awayRef 200030A000807
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on a C road in Erewash, 13 January 2006
30 m awayRef 200630A000042
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Erewash, 7 February 2009
30 m awayRef 200930A000056
Serious
Ford KA crash on a C road in Erewash, 25 December 2005
40 m awayRef 200530A000711
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on a C road in Erewash, 23 November 2005
41 m awayRef 200530A000645
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Combo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Combo)
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 2015300016962 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 2015.