A6 crash in Amber Valley on 22 September 1990 at 21:05 involving a motor scooter
A motor scooter and a car were involved in a crash on the A6 in Amber Valley at 21:05 on Saturday 22 September 1990. The 17-year-old male rider of the motor scooter was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Sep 1990
- Saturday, 21:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motor scooter and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.98593, longitude -1.48755, in the DE56 postcode district and within the built-up area of Duffield.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990300A00673
- Council area
- Amber Valley
- Police force
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 August 1979.
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A6 in Amber Valley, 11 August 1979
At the same spotRef 1979309A01304
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 14 September 1994
At the same spotRef 1994304A00333
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A6 in Amber Valley, 25 January 1993
At the same spotRef 1993303A00023
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in Amber Valley, 22 September 1986
At the same spotRef 1986306A00581
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Car crash on the A6 in Amber Valley, 14 April 2019
10 m awayRef 2019301900516
Serious
Bus crash on the A6 in Amber Valley, 23 September 2025
15 m awayRef 2025302501465
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motor scooter
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)
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 1990300A00673 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 1990.