C road crash in Erewash DE7 on 2 January 2020 at 15:00 involving a Scania bus
A Scania bus hit a pedestrian on a C road in Erewash at 15:00 on Thursday 2 January 2020. A 75-year-old male 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
- 2 Jan 2020
- Thursday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Scania
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.96827, longitude -1.30869, in the DE7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ilkeston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Little Hallam, Erewash, DE7 5PS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020302000042
- 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
- Zebra crossing
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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 July 2023.
Slight
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5 m awayRef 2023302301086
Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on a C road in Erewash, 15 April 2016
6 m awayRef 2016300018847
Slight
Optare crash on a C road in Erewash, 3 January 2012
6 m awayRef 201230D000155
Slight
Scania crash on a C road in Erewash, 9 August 2010
8 m awayRef 201030D000740
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A6007 in Erewash, 29 March 1999
8 m awayRef 199930A000184
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Erewash, 1 June 2012
8 m awayRef 201230D001209
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Scania
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 75, hit by vehicle 1 (Scania)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- 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 2020302000042 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 2020.