Unclassified road crash in High Peak SK23 on 26 July 1979 at 02:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in High Peak at 02:00 on Thursday 26 July 1979. The 21-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 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
- 26 Jul 1979
- Thursday, 02:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.316, longitude -1.9174, in the SK23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chapel-en-le-Frith.
Map of where the crash happened in High Peak
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979309B01073
- Council area
- High Peak
- Police force
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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 serious injury crash on 22 February 1979.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in High Peak, 22 February 1979
At the same spotRef 1979309B00260
Serious
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64 m awayRef 200930B000040
Slight
Mitsubishi Outlander crash on a C road in High Peak, 3 December 2025
98 m awayRef 2025302501924
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in High Peak, 21 July 2006
117 m awayRef 200630B000337
Slight
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Slight
Toyota Carina crash on a C road in High Peak, 12 May 1998
141 m awayRef 1998308B00275
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1979309B01073 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the High Peak road accident statistics for 1979.