Unclassified road crash in Erewash DE7 on 11 April 2017 at 16:00 involving a Volvo bus
A Volvo bus and a Mercedes bus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Erewash at 16:00 on Tuesday 11 April 2017. A 40-year-old female pedestrian hit by the Mercedes bus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Apr 2017
- Tuesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo and Mercedes
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.99186, longitude -1.31265, in the DE7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ilkeston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cotmanhay, Erewash, DE7 8RX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Erewash
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017301700667
- Council area
- Erewash
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 March 2018.
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on an unclassified road in Erewash, 14 March 2018
6 m awayRef 2018301800379
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Erewash, 17 August 2012
7 m awayRef 201230D001781
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Erewash, 1 September 1989
65 m awayRef 1989309A00553
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Erewash, 27 May 1986
65 m awayRef 1986306A00303
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Erewash, 25 February 2005
75 m awayRef 200530A000136
Serious
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Erewash, 5 June 2015
75 m awayRef 2015300014239
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 7,698 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,370 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 2 (Mercedes)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- 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 2017301700667 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 2017.