Serious A6 crash in High Peak on 31 December 1986 at 20:20 involving a car

A car crashed on the A6 in High Peak at 20:20 on Wednesday 31 December 1986. A 20-year-old male passenger was seriously 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: Serious
Date: 31 Dec 1986; Wednesday, 20:20
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986306B00631
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: Raining, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South West
Travelling to
North West
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
Leaving the carriageway
Nearside
Hit object off carriageway
Entered ditch
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
20 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Passenger
Serious
Male, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Car passenger
Front seat passenger

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 1986306B00631 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.