B600 crash in Amber Valley on 8 March 1985 at 22:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the B600 in Amber Valley at 22:00 on Friday 8 March 1985. The 30-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Mar 1985
- Friday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.07614, longitude -1.36557, in the DE55 postcode district and within the built-up area of Somercotes and Swanwick.
Map of where the crash happened in Amber Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985305A00147
- Council area
- Amber Valley
- Police force
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 600
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 June 1991.
Slight
Rover SD1 crash on the B600 in Amber Valley, 22 June 1991
At the same spotRef 1991301A00359
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 13 July 1981
At the same spotRef 1981301A01315
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 12 April 2009
80 m awayRef 200930A000176
Serious
Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 3 July 1991
100 m awayRef 1991301A00385
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 15 May 1982
100 m awayRef 1982302A00808
Slight
Car crash on the B600 in Amber Valley, 7 February 1990
100 m awayRef 1990300A00081
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, 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 1985305A00147 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.