Serious C road crash in Erewash DE72 on 12 May 2018 at 22:00 involving a Renault
A Renault and a bus or coach were involved in a crash on a C road in Erewash at 22:00 on Saturday 12 May 2018. A 52-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Renault was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 May 2018
- Saturday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault and bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.90181, longitude -1.31332, in the DE72 postcode district and within the built-up area of Breaston and Draycott. It is one of the crashes that make up the Breaston, Erewash, DE72 3DZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Erewash
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018301800669
- 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
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 23 November 2017.
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on a C road in Erewash, 23 November 2017
1 m awayRef 2017301701960
Slight
Hyundai ix35 crash on a C road in Erewash, 7 April 2016
16 m awayRef 2016300018726
Slight
Honda Civic crash on a C road in Erewash, 21 March 2005
44 m awayRef 200530A000157
Slight
Car crash on the B6002 in Erewash, 20 December 2020
74 m awayRef 2020302001643
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on a C road in Erewash, 7 January 1991
94 m awayRef 1991301A00015
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Erewash, 2 December 1981
120 m awayRef 1981301A02248
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 52, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 2018301800669 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 2018.