Serious C road crash in South Derbyshire DE73 on 5 November 2025 at 18:30 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira and an e-scooter were involved in a crash on a C road in South Derbyshire at 18:30 on Wednesday 5 November 2025. The 15-year-old male rider of the e-scooter was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Nov 2025
- Wednesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and e-scooter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.82535, longitude -1.42647, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025302501871
- Council area
- South Derbyshire
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 June 1999.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in South Derbyshire, 28 June 1999
13 m awayRef 199930D000522
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in South Derbyshire, 5 December 2012
49 m awayRef 201230D002454
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on a C road in South Derbyshire, 10 October 2007
53 m awayRef 200730D000809
Slight
Austin Metro crash on a C road in South Derbyshire, 17 November 1994
54 m awayRef 1994304D00978
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in South Derbyshire, 3 May 2012
63 m awayRef 201230D001093
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Derbyshire, 21 May 1984
66 m awayRef 1984304D00404
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: E-scooter
Personal powered transporter (e-scooter or similar)
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- E-scooter
- Vehicle was an e-scooter
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 15, on vehicle 2 (E-scooter)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
- E-scooter
- Casualty was using an e-scooter
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 2025302501871 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.