Unclassified road crash in South Derbyshire DE73 on 22 July 2025 at 13:30 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in South Derbyshire at 13:30 on Tuesday 22 July 2025. A 71-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jul 2025
- Tuesday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.82435, longitude -1.42893, in the DE73 postcode district and within the built-up area of Melbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Melbourne, South Derbyshire, DE73 8JN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Derbyshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025302501145
- Council area
- South Derbyshire
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 September 2002.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in South Derbyshire, 24 September 2002
9 m awayRef 200230D000843
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in South Derbyshire, 23 July 1999
26 m awayRef 199930D000592
Slight
Car crash on a C road in South Derbyshire, 18 March 1979, ref 1979309D00768
50 m awayRef 1979309D00768
Slight
Car crash on a C road in South Derbyshire, 18 March 1979, ref 1979309D00772
50 m awayRef 1979309D00772
Serious
Ford Focus crash on a C road in South Derbyshire, 7 June 2009
56 m awayRef 200930D000429
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in South Derbyshire, 2 October 1985
59 m awayRef 1985305D00706
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 71, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2025302501145 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Derbyshire road accident statistics for 2025.