Serious B6179 crash in Amber Valley on 30 November 2001 at 11:05
A vehicle hit a pedestrian on the B6179 in Amber Valley at 11:05 on Friday 30 November 2001. An 81-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Nov 2001
- Friday, 11:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.04855, longitude -1.4067, in the DE5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ripley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ripley, Amber Valley, DE5 3SG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Amber Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200130A000700
- Council area
- Amber Valley
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6179
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 fatal crash on 1 October 2001.
Fatal
ERF crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 1 October 2001
At the same spotRef 200130A000555
Slight
Toyota Landcruiser crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 10 December 2001
At the same spotRef 200130A000730
Slight
Fiat Bravo crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 22 January 2001
At the same spotRef 200130A000044
Serious
Peugeot 208 crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 5 April 2025
11 m awayRef 2025302500543
Serious
Lexmoto LXR crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 17 June 2022
12 m awayRef 2022302201049
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 10 August 2023
16 m awayRef 2023302301233
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 81, hit by vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 200130A000700 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.