Serious C road crash in High Peak SK17 on 11 April 1983 at 17:40 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in High Peak at 17:40 on Monday 11 April 1983. A 5-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Apr 1983
- Monday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.24229, longitude -1.90706, in the SK17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Buxton.
Map of where the crash happened in High Peak
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983303B00588
- Council area
- High Peak
- Police force
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 January 1981.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in High Peak, 13 January 1981
At the same spotRef 1981301B00055
Slight
Honda Civic crash on a C road in High Peak, 15 January 2010
32 m awayRef 201030B000012
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on a C road in High Peak, 29 November 2003
36 m awayRef 200330B000655
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in High Peak, 21 September 2025
66 m awayRef 2025302501472
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in High Peak, 1 May 2002
70 m awayRef 200230B000224
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in High Peak, 7 March 2010
71 m awayRef 201030B000061
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 1983303B00588 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 1983.