Unclassified road crash in Derby DE23 on 18 September 2018 at 08:30 involving a Volkswagen Passat taxi
A Volkswagen Passat taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Derby at 08:30 on Tuesday 18 September 2018. A 29-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Sep 2018
- Tuesday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.89285, longitude -1.49261, in the DE23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Derby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Blagreaves, Derby, DE23 1XY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Derby
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018301801243
- Council area
- Derby
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 89 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 31 December 1986.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Derby, 31 December 1986
89 m awayRef 1986306D01113
Serious
DAF Trucks crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 6 August 2024
93 m awayRef 2024302401229
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 30 June 2022
107 m awayRef 2022302201129
Serious
Mercedes A Class crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 8 June 2021
113 m awayRef 2021302100818
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 24 May 1999
115 m awayRef 199930D000416
Serious
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 14 October 2011
117 m awayRef 201130D001065
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 29, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2018301801243 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 2018.