B6543 crash in Chesterfield on 2 October 2016 at 01:38 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on the B6543 in Chesterfield at 01:38 on Sunday 2 October 2016. A 24-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Oct 2016
- Sunday, 01:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.23714, longitude -1.42473, in the S41 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chesterfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Spire, Chesterfield, S40 1QX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chesterfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016301700304
- Council area
- Chesterfield
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6543
- 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
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 June 1999.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B6543 in Chesterfield, 5 June 1999
9 m awayRef 199930C000391
Slight
Car crash on the B6543 in Chesterfield, 22 February 2002
9 m awayRef 200230C000142
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the B6543 in Chesterfield, 9 January 2007
9 m awayRef 200730C000015
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B6543 in Chesterfield, 20 November 2008
9 m awayRef 200830C000706
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B6543 in Chesterfield, 13 April 2016
13 m awayRef 2016300018813
Slight
Taxi crash on the B6543 in Chesterfield, 9 April 2005
13 m awayRef 200530C000204
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- 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 2016301700304 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chesterfield road accident statistics for 2016.