B6540 crash in Erewash on 11 December 2018 at 15:45 involving a Peugeot 207
A Peugeot 207, a Skoda Octavia and a Vauxhall Combo were involved in a crash on the B6540 in Erewash at 15:45 on Tuesday 11 December 2018. The 63-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Combo was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Dec 2018
- Tuesday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 3
- Peugeot 207 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.87864, longitude -1.29897, in the NG10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sawley, Erewash, NG10 3BZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Erewash
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018301801760
- Council area
- Erewash
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6540
- 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 April 2000.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B6540 in Erewash, 15 April 2000
4 m awayRef 200030A000244
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B6540 in Erewash, 22 August 1999
18 m awayRef 199930A000478
Slight
BMW R 1200 crash on the B6540 in Erewash, 28 January 2012
24 m awayRef 201230D000235
Serious
Hyundai ix35 crash on a C road in Erewash, 28 January 2015
26 m awayRef 2015300011950
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the B6540 in Erewash, 8 December 2018
32 m awayRef 2018301801748
Slight
Kia Venga crash on the B6540 in Erewash, 8 June 2021
35 m awayRef 2021302100809
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Skoda Octavia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Combo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Vauxhall Combo)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018301801760 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.