A517 crash in Amber Valley on 31 January 1985 at 19:45 involving a car
A car and a lorry were involved in a crash on the A517 in Amber Valley at 19:45 on Thursday 31 January 1985. The 40-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jan 1985
- Thursday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.02469, longitude -1.51095, in the DE56 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Amber Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985305A00050
- Council area
- Amber Valley
- Police force
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 517
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 March 2010.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A517 in Amber Valley, 19 March 2010
14 m awayRef 201030A000117
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A517 in Amber Valley, 16 November 2019
24 m awayRef 2019301901647
Serious
Volvo crash on the A517 in Amber Valley, 22 October 2015
36 m awayRef 2015300016379
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A517 in Amber Valley, 24 September 2024
57 m awayRef 2024302401454
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A517 in Amber Valley, 19 May 2025
57 m awayRef 2025302501066
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A517 in Amber Valley, 27 November 2022
59 m awayRef 2022302202014
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, 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 1985305A00050 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 1985.