A38 crash in Amber Valley on 19 January 2001 at 11:45 involving a Peugeot 406
A Peugeot 406 and a car were involved in a crash on the A38 in Amber Valley at 11:45 on Friday 19 January 2001. A female passenger in the Peugeot 406 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jan 2001
- Friday, 11:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 406 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.06996, longitude -1.40834, in the DE55 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Swanwick, Amber Valley, DE55 1FE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200130A000038
- Council area
- Amber Valley
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 January 1999.
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A38 in Amber Valley, 18 January 1999
41 m awayRef 1999309A00037
Slight
Iveco Eurocargo crash on the A38 in Amber Valley, 16 September 2022
52 m awayRef 2022302201683
Serious
BMW R Series crash on the A38 in Amber Valley, 9 April 2025
82 m awayRef 2025302500562
Serious
Kia Sorento crash on the A38 in Amber Valley, 5 August 2018
103 m awayRef 2018301801086
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A38 in Amber Valley, 26 September 2018
108 m awayRef 2018301801329
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Amber Valley, 3 March 1988
117 m awayRef 1988308A00130
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 406
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 406)
- 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 200130A000038 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 2001.