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A52 crash in the Derbyshire Dales on 21 August 1997 at 15:05 involving a Land Rover Range Rover

A Land Rover Range Rover crashed on the A52 in the Derbyshire Dales at 15:05 on Thursday 21 August 1997. The 37-year-old female driver was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
21 Aug 1997
Thursday, 15:05
Vehicles
1
Land Rover Range Rover
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.00291, longitude -1.72726, in the DE6 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in the Derbyshire Dales

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1997307B00511
Council area
Derbyshire Dales
Police force
Derbyshire
Highway authority
Derbyshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
52
Road type
Dual 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
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 June 1996.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Land Rover Range Rover

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Slowing or stopping
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    East
    Skidding and overturning
    Overturned
    Hit object in carriageway
    Bridge (side)
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
    Hit object off carriageway
    Nearside or offside crash barrier
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    37 years
    Engine capacity
    3,947 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    5 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Female, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Range Rover)

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 1997307B00511 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.