C road crash in Erewash DE21 on 7 August 2020 at 18:10 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Erewash at 18:10 on Friday 7 August 2020. The 51-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Aug 2020
- Friday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.93568, longitude -1.40277, in the DE21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Erewash
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020302000849
- Council area
- Erewash
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 August 2007.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Erewash, 22 August 2007
8 m awayRef 200730A000520
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on a C road in Erewash, 24 July 2014
11 m awayRef 2014300008395
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in Erewash, 21 November 2000
14 m awayRef 200030D000962
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Erewash, 14 October 2018
24 m awayRef 2018301900422
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Erewash, 30 November 1999
34 m awayRef 199930A000735
Slight
Metrocab Metrocab crash on a C road in Erewash, 24 August 2006
56 m awayRef 200630A000606
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2020302000849 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.