A608 crash in Amber Valley on 31 March 2000 at 21:20 involving a Peugeot 405
A Peugeot 405 hit a pedestrian on the A608 in Amber Valley at 21:20 on Friday 31 March 2000. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Mar 2000
- Friday, 21:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 405
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.01376, longitude -1.35396, in the DE75 postcode district and within the built-up area of Heanor.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200030A000209
- Council area
- Amber Valley
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 608
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 May 2004.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A608 in Amber Valley, 18 May 2004
At the same spotRef 200430A000265
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Ford Escort crash on the A6007 in Amber Valley, 19 March 2008
At the same spotRef 200830A000180
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on the A6007 in Amber Valley, 31 December 2011
10 m awayRef 201130C000982
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Mitsubishi Mirage crash on the A6007 in Amber Valley, 19 November 2020
10 m awayRef 2020302001331
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Car crash on the A6007 in Amber Valley, 17 September 2010
14 m awayRef 201030C000613
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A6007 in Amber Valley, 13 November 2017
15 m awayRef 2017301701825
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 405
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,580 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Peugeot 405)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 200030A000209 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.