A5012 crash in the Derbyshire Dales on 11 February 1997 at 10:05 involving a MAN lorry
A MAN lorry crashed on the A5012 in the Derbyshire Dales at 10:05 on Tuesday 11 February 1997. The 31-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Feb 1997
- Tuesday, 10:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- MAN
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.13506, longitude -1.73241, 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
- 1997307B00084
- Council area
- Derbyshire Dales
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5012
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, 95 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 April 2010.
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A5012 in the Derbyshire Dales, 23 April 2010
95 m awayRef 201030B000119
Slight
Toyota Hilux crash on the A5012 in the Derbyshire Dales, 29 October 2025
115 m awayRef 2025302501666
Slight
Car crash on the A5012 in the Derbyshire Dales, 14 March 1981
141 m awayRef 1981301B00401
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the A5012 in the Derbyshire Dales, 22 April 1994
283 m awayRef 1994304F00093
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A5012 in the Derbyshire Dales, 16 August 1991
361 m awayRef 1991301B00439
Slight
Car crash on the A515 in the Derbyshire Dales, 12 April 1995
361 m awayRef 1995305B00187
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MAN
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 11,967 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (MAN)
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 1997307B00084 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 1997.