A57 crash in High Peak on 3 August 2000 at 15:30 involving a Ford Escort van
A Ford Escort van and a Ford Transit lorry were involved in a crash on the A57 in High Peak at 15:30 on Thursday 3 August 2000. The 56-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Aug 2000
- Thursday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.45822, longitude -1.98656, in the SK13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in High Peak
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200030B000456
- Council area
- High Peak
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 57
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 December 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A57 in High Peak, 29 December 1987
22 m awayRef 1987307B00639
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the A57 in High Peak, 2 February 1993
22 m awayRef 1993303B00019
Slight
Car crash on the A57 in High Peak, 3 December 1988
22 m awayRef 1988308B00627
Serious
LDV 400 Series crash on the A57 in High Peak, 8 January 2007
32 m awayRef 200730B000011
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A57 in High Peak, 24 April 2004
36 m awayRef 200430B000193
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A57 in High Peak, 25 August 2006
54 m awayRef 200630B000385
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 200030B000456 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the High Peak road accident statistics for 2000.