A517 crash in Amber Valley on 3 June 2000 at 23:30 involving a Moto Guzzi motorcycle
A Moto Guzzi motorcycle crashed on the A517 in Amber Valley at 23:30 on Saturday 3 June 2000. A 27-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Jun 2000
- Saturday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Moto Guzzi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.02113, longitude -1.52559, in the DE56 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200030A000361
- 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
- 517
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 June 1994.
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A517 in Amber Valley, 19 June 1994
20 m awayRef 1994304A00224
Slight
Car crash on the A517 in Amber Valley, 22 May 1983
20 m awayRef 1983303A00913
Slight
Car crash on the A517 in Amber Valley, 3 October 1979
20 m awayRef 1979309A01629
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on the A517 in Amber Valley, 28 January 2004
54 m awayRef 200430A000050
Serious
Aprilia SX 125 crash on the A517 in Amber Valley, 17 June 2023
66 m awayRef 2023302300912
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A517 in Amber Valley, 1 July 1979
80 m awayRef 1979309A01076
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Moto Guzzi
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Road works
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 948 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 27, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Moto Guzzi)
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 200030A000361 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.