Serious C road crash in High Peak S33 on 6 September 1980 at 17:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on a C road in High Peak at 17:20 on Saturday 6 September 1980. A 54-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Sep 1980
- Saturday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.35622, longitude -1.74905, in the S33 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in High Peak
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980300B01360
- Council area
- High Peak
- Police force
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 66 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 March 2025.
Slight
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Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in High Peak, 15 October 1988
100 m awayRef 1988308B00525
Slight
MG Maestro crash on a C road in High Peak, 27 May 1991
100 m awayRef 1991301B00264
Slight
Volvo V70 crash on a C road in High Peak, 1 September 2009
120 m awayRef 200930B000373
Slight
Peugeot 407 crash on a C road in High Peak, 2 August 2009
122 m awayRef 200930B000367
Slight
Car crash on a C road in High Peak, 1 June 1980
141 m awayRef 1980300B00807
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 54, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
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 1980300B01360 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 1980.