Unclassified road crash in Erewash DE21 on 27 April 2025 at 00:01 involving a Seat Leon
A Seat Leon crashed on an unclassified road in Erewash at 00:01 on Sunday 27 April 2025. The 33-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Apr 2025
- Sunday, 00:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Leon
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.93143, longitude -1.41607, in the DE21 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chaddesden East, Derby, DE21 6UW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Erewash
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025302500902
- Council area
- Erewash
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 48 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 December 2012.
Serious
Yamaha YZF R125 crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 14 December 2012
48 m awayRef 201230D002478
Serious
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 26 January 2014
48 m awayRef 2014300005041
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 5 April 2007
70 m awayRef 200730D000263
Slight
Ford Scorpio crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 5 June 2005
83 m awayRef 200530D000375
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 8 November 1997
88 m awayRef 1997307D00916
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Derby, 22 June 1990
90 m awayRef 1990300D00583
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025302500902 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 2025.