Serious A6 crash in the Derbyshire Dales on 26 February 2000 at 16:28 involving a Hyundai Accent
A Hyundai Accent hit a pedestrian on the A6 in the Derbyshire Dales at 16:28 on Saturday 26 February 2000. A 21-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Feb 2000
- Saturday, 16:28
- Vehicles
- 1
- Hyundai Accent
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.21211, longitude -1.67488, in the DE45 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bakewell.
Map of where the crash happened in the Derbyshire Dales
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200030B000120
- Council area
- Derbyshire Dales
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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 27 December 2000.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A6 in the Derbyshire Dales, 27 December 2000
At the same spotRef 200030B000745
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A6 in the Derbyshire Dales, 22 March 2000
10 m awayRef 200030B000172
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Derbyshire Dales, 28 June 1982
14 m awayRef 1982302B00977
Slight
Car crash on the A619 in the Derbyshire Dales, 2 February 1989
14 m awayRef 1989309B00051
Slight
Datsun Bluebird crash on the A6 in the Derbyshire Dales, 14 February 1996
14 m awayRef 1996306B00071
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in the Derbyshire Dales, 27 June 1993
14 m awayRef 1993303F00201
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai Accent
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,341 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Hyundai Accent)
- 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 200030B000120 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 2000.