A38 crash in Erewash on 20 April 2017 at 14:55 involving an Alexander Dennis bus
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Apr 2017
- Thursday, 14:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Alexander Dennis and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.95636, longitude -1.45842, in the DE21 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Little Eaton & Stanley, Erewash, DE21 5LE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017301700962
- Council area
- Erewash
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 June 2023.
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A38 in Erewash, 18 June 2023
10 m awayRef 2023302300930
Serious
Jaguar S Type crash on the A38 in Erewash, 16 July 2010
10 m awayRef 201030D000660
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A38 in Erewash, 11 May 2017
14 m awayRef 2017301700822
Serious
Aprilia crash on the A38 in Erewash, 16 December 2003
16 m awayRef 200330A000715
Serious
Yamaha YZF R125 crash on the A38 in Erewash, 5 March 2010
23 m awayRef 201030A000093
Slight
Harley-Davidson XL crash on the A38 in Erewash, 4 October 2025
27 m awayRef 2025302501551
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Alexander Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Alexander Dennis)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated 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 2017301700962 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.