Serious B6179 crash in Amber Valley on 12 February 2000 at 19:33 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier hit a pedestrian on the B6179 in Amber Valley at 19:33 on Saturday 12 February 2000. A 39-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Feb 2000
- Saturday, 19:33
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.07809, longitude -1.39883, in the DE55 postcode district and within the built-up area of Somercotes and Swanwick.
Map of where the crash happened in Amber Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200030A000100
- Council area
- Amber Valley
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6179
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 October 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 26 October 2013
10 m awayRef 2013300003280
Slight
Honda XL125V crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 25 July 2023
19 m awayRef 2023302301142
Slight
Hyundai Pony crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 16 April 2000
22 m awayRef 200030A000246
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 16 April 1990
30 m awayRef 1990300A00261
Slight
Citroen C15 crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 4 October 2006
32 m awayRef 200630A000520
Slight
Optare crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 21 July 2010
51 m awayRef 201030C000460
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 39, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 200030A000100 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 2000.