A6 crash in High Peak on 6 December 1986 at 20:15 involving a car

A car crashed on the A6 in High Peak at 20:15 on Saturday 6 December 1986. The 29-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 6 Dec 1986; Saturday, 20:15
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986306B00592
Council area: High Peak
Police force: Derbyshire

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 6
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: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Frost or ice

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
West
Travelling to
East
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
Leaving the carriageway
Nearside
First point of impact
Offside
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
29 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 29, 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 1986306B00592 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 1986.