A38 crash in Amber Valley on 30 July 1981 at 08:25 involving a car
A car crashed on the A38 in Amber Valley at 08:25 on Thursday 30 July 1981. The 52-year-old male driver and a 35-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jul 1981
- Thursday, 08:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.08534, longitude -1.40724, in the DE55 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Amber Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981301A01416
- Council area
- Amber Valley
- Police force
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 November 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Amber Valley, 30 November 1983
At the same spotRef 1983303A02286
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A38 in Amber Valley, 26 December 1998
At the same spotRef 1998308A00854
Serious
Car crash on the A38 in Amber Valley, 28 March 1981
At the same spotRef 1981301A00631
Slight
Van crash on the A38 in Amber Valley, 6 May 1988
At the same spotRef 1988308A00261
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A38 in Amber Valley, 16 November 2001
22 m awayRef 200130A000654
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A38 in Amber Valley, 17 December 2000
30 m awayRef 200030A000783
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1981301A01416 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Amber Valley road accident statistics for 1981.