The 35-year-old, who shot to fame playing Robbie Jackson in the BBC soap, was knocked unconscious in the accident when his car went into the central reservation of a road in Derbyshire.
After beginning his career at Leicestershire in the 1985-86 season, DeFreitas enjoyed spells with Lancashire and then Derbyshire before returning to Grace Road.
Plans for a road-pricing scheme in a heavily used bit of the Peak District National Park, in Derbyshire, are on hold, as is a congestion-charging scheme in Cardiff, and a planned workplace parking levy broadly the same thing in Nottingham.