A6 crash in the Derbyshire Dales on 20 September 1994 at 20:00 involving a Vauxhall
A Vauxhall hit a pedestrian on the A6 in the Derbyshire Dales at 20:00 on Tuesday 20 September 1994. A 29-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Sep 1994
- Tuesday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.15258, longitude -1.57529, in the DE4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Derbyshire Dales
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994304F00285
- Council area
- Derbyshire Dales
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 86 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 May 2000.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the Derbyshire Dales, 6 May 2000
86 m awayRef 200030B000265
Slight
Van crash on the A6 in the Derbyshire Dales, 5 February 1986
100 m awayRef 1986306B00047
Serious
Yamaha XSR crash on an unclassified road in the Derbyshire Dales, 7 October 2024
121 m awayRef 2024302401429
Slight
Citroen C5 crash on an unclassified road in the Derbyshire Dales, 21 October 2004
132 m awayRef 200430B000522
Slight
Hyundai Coupe crash on the A6 in the Derbyshire Dales, 16 December 2002
136 m awayRef 200230B000704
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A6 in the Derbyshire Dales, 28 April 2018
136 m awayRef 2018301800506
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 29, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1994304F00285 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 1994.