Serious A61 crash in Chesterfield on 10 March 2019 at 05:15 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A61 in Chesterfield at 05:15 on Sunday 10 March 2019. A 19-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and a 19-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Mar 2019
- Sunday, 05:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.26024, longitude -1.4292, in the S41 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chesterfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whittington Moor, Chesterfield, S41 8LW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019301900280
- Council area
- Chesterfield
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 61
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 6057
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 November 2024.
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the A61 in Chesterfield, 26 November 2024
2 m awayRef 2024302401689
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A61 in Chesterfield, 7 December 2022
3 m awayRef 2022302202101
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A61 in Chesterfield, 18 February 2000
5 m awayRef 200030C000136
Slight
Suzuki Jimny crash on the A61 in Chesterfield, 26 September 2009
5 m awayRef 200930C000498
Slight
Piaggio NRG crash on the A61 in Chesterfield, 10 December 2003
5 m awayRef 200330C000791
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A61 in Chesterfield, 4 January 2012
5 m awayRef 201230C000053
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Central island of roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2019301900280 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chesterfield road accident statistics for 2019.