A52 crash in the Derbyshire Dales on 3 July 1979 at 01:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A52 in the Derbyshire Dales at 01:15 on Tuesday 3 July 1979. The 19-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Jul 1979
- Tuesday, 01:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.01371, longitude -1.73614, in the DE6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ashbourne.
Map of where the crash happened in the Derbyshire Dales
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979309B00934
- Council area
- Derbyshire Dales
- Police force
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 52
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 April 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A52 in the Derbyshire Dales, 11 April 1979
At the same spotRef 1979309B00498
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A52 in the Derbyshire Dales, 23 February 1980
At the same spotRef 1980300B00264
Slight
Car crash on the A52 in the Derbyshire Dales, 22 June 1989
At the same spotRef 1989309B00308
Slight
Car crash on the A52 in the Derbyshire Dales, 30 March 1992
At the same spotRef 1992302F00094
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A515 in the Derbyshire Dales, 6 October 2012
28 m awayRef 201230B001915
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A515 in the Derbyshire Dales, 29 November 2022
32 m awayRef 2022302202019
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 1979309B00934 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Derbyshire Dales road accident statistics for 1979.