A626 crash in High Peak on 17 December 2000 at 12:15 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Citroen Xantia were involved in a crash on the A626 in High Peak at 12:15 on Sunday 17 December 2000. A 4-year-old female passenger in the BMW 3 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2000
- Sunday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Citroen Xantia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.44465, longitude -1.98371, 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
- 200030B000720
- Council area
- High Peak
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 626
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 8 November 2015.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A626 in High Peak, 8 November 2015
At the same spotRef 2015300016624
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A626 in High Peak, 17 November 2015
At the same spotRef 2015300016751
Slight
Rover 45 crash on the A626 in High Peak, 21 November 2004
At the same spotRef 200430B000596
Slight
Kia Venga crash on the A626 in High Peak, 27 March 2017
4 m awayRef 2017301700848
Slight
Suzuki GSF 600 crash on the A626 in High Peak, 6 May 2025
5 m awayRef 2025302500950
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A626 in High Peak, 28 January 2021
7 m awayRef 2021302100176
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen Xantia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,761 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 4, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200030B000720 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.