C road crash in Derby DE22 on 23 August 2016 at 23:57 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on a C road in Derby at 23:57 on Tuesday 23 August 2016. The 31-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus and the 31-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Aug 2016
- Tuesday, 23:57
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.93403, longitude -1.49764, in the DE22 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Allestree, Derby, DE22 1GB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Derby
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016301600278
- Council area
- Derby
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 38
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 February 2022.
Slight
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At the same spotRef 2022302200223
Serious
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Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 15 November 2019
1 m awayRef 2019301901632
Slight
Ford Orion crash on a C road in Derby, 18 December 2002
5 m awayRef 200230D001138
Slight
Opel crash on a C road in Derby, 8 May 2002
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Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Derby, 16 December 2002
5 m awayRef 200230D001135
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 2016301600278 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 2016.