Serious C road crash in Amber Valley DE56 on 23 January 1987 at 22:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle, a car and a van were involved in a crash on a C road in Amber Valley at 22:15 on Friday 23 January 1987. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Jan 1987
- Friday, 22:15
- Vehicles
- 3
- Motorcycle and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.0056, longitude -1.46347, in the DE56 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Amber Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1987307A00029
- Council area
- Amber Valley
- Police force
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 November 1981.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Amber Valley, 30 November 1981
At the same spotRef 1981301A02235
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Amber Valley, 26 October 1985
At the same spotRef 1985305A00608
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Amber Valley, 8 February 2019
75 m awayRef 2019301900176
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 8 June 1999
76 m awayRef 199930A000321
Slight
MG Midget crash on a C road in Amber Valley, 18 September 1999
106 m awayRef 199930A000545
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Amber Valley, 15 July 2025
111 m awayRef 2025302501180
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Vehicle 3: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 1987307A00029 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 1987.