A6007 crash in Amber Valley on 14 August 1985 at 15:15 involving a car
A car crashed on the A6007 in Amber Valley at 15:15 on Wednesday 14 August 1985. The 34-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Aug 1985
- Wednesday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.9968, longitude -1.32353, in the DE75 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ilkeston.
Map of where the crash happened in Amber Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985305A00441
- Council area
- Amber Valley
- Police force
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6007
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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, 45 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 July 2011.
Serious
Citroen crash on the A6007 in Amber Valley, 14 July 2011
45 m awayRef 201130C000509
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A6007 in Amber Valley, 29 March 2006
50 m awayRef 200630A000176
Slight
Volkswagen Bora crash on the A6007 in Amber Valley, 12 January 2025
63 m awayRef 2025302500364
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A6007 in Amber Valley, 3 May 2022
80 m awayRef 2022302200917
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A6007 in Amber Valley, 16 April 2001
95 m awayRef 200130A000233
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 21 October 1979
100 m awayRef 1979309A01814
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, 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 1985305A00441 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.