A5270 crash in the Derbyshire Dales on 9 August 1991 at 17:30 involving an Austin Maestro
An Austin Maestro crashed on the A5270 in the Derbyshire Dales at 17:30 on Friday 9 August 1991. A 43-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Aug 1991
- Friday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Austin Maestro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.23592, longitude -1.83516, in the SK17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Derbyshire Dales
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1991301B00421
- Council area
- Derbyshire Dales
- Police force
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5270
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 August 1990.
Slight
Bedford crash on the A5270 in the Derbyshire Dales, 17 August 1990
100 m awayRef 1990300B00456
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A515 in the Derbyshire Dales, 31 May 2020
120 m awayRef 2020302000639
Slight
Kia Soul crash on the A5270 in the Derbyshire Dales, 23 January 2014
125 m awayRef 2014300004996
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A5270 in the Derbyshire Dales, 8 December 2012
136 m awayRef 201230B002552
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A5270 in the Derbyshire Dales, 23 August 1997
141 m awayRef 1997307B00517
Serious
Car crash on the A5270 in the Derbyshire Dales, 18 August 1984
141 m awayRef 1984304B00395
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Austin Maestro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Austin Maestro)
- 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 1991301B00421 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 1991.