B6179 crash in Amber Valley on 3 March 1995 at 07:35 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A car and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley at 07:35 on Friday 3 March 1995. The 40-year-old male driver of the car and the 24-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Mar 1995
- Friday, 07:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.01446, longitude -1.43355, in the DE5 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1995305A00128
- Council area
- Amber Valley
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6179
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 64 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 September 2010.
Slight
Scania crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 3 September 2010
64 m awayRef 201030C000582
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 1 August 2003
72 m awayRef 200330A000433
Slight
Suzuki Baleno crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 22 February 2009
78 m awayRef 200930A000088
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 10 March 2025
87 m awayRef 2025302500602
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 6 July 2012
100 m awayRef 201230C001318
Fatal
Car crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 10 May 1989
100 m awayRef 1989309A00261
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 1995305A00128 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 1995.