Serious A623 crash in the Derbyshire Dales on 5 April 1987 at 20:20 involving a car
A car crashed on the A623 in the Derbyshire Dales at 20:20 on Sunday 5 April 1987. The 19-year-old male driver and an 18-year-old male passenger were seriously injured and a 20-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Apr 1987
- Sunday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 3
- 2 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.25253, longitude -1.62826, in the DE45 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Derbyshire Dales
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1987307B00125
- Council area
- Derbyshire Dales
- Police force
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 623
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 August 2001.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A623 in the Derbyshire Dales, 3 August 2001
30 m awayRef 200130B000463
Slight
Leyland DAF FTG 85 crash on the A623 in the Derbyshire Dales, 6 February 2001
81 m awayRef 200130B000062
Slight
Leyland DAF 400 crash on an unclassified road in the Derbyshire Dales, 15 March 1993
100 m awayRef 1993303F00073
Slight
ERF crash on the A623 in the Derbyshire Dales, 23 February 2004
134 m awayRef 200430B000083
Slight
Audi Q7 crash on the A623 in the Derbyshire Dales, 28 September 2008
143 m awayRef 200830B000443
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A623 in the Derbyshire Dales, 26 February 1996
200 m awayRef 1996306B00095
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 1987307B00125 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Derbyshire Dales road accident statistics for 1987.