A608 crash in Amber Valley on 15 February 2002 at 11:30 involving a Citroen BX
A Citroen BX, a Daewoo Nubira and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on the A608 in Amber Valley at 11:30 on Friday 15 February 2002. The 38-year-old male driver of the Citroen BX was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Feb 2002
- Friday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Citroen BX and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.01033, longitude -1.36892, in the DE75 postcode district and within the built-up area of Heanor.
Map of where the crash happened in Amber Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200230A000108
- Council area
- Amber Valley
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 608
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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 28 April 2011.
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A608 in Amber Valley, 28 April 2011
At the same spotRef 201130C000300
Slight
Sym Jet crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 19 October 2010
10 m awayRef 201030C000743
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A608 in Amber Valley, 14 October 2012
10 m awayRef 201230C001994
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A608 in Amber Valley, 3 October 2025
13 m awayRef 2025302501787
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on the A608 in Amber Valley, 18 April 2005
32 m awayRef 200530A000186
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the A608 in Amber Valley, 20 December 2002
32 m awayRef 200230A000776
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Citroen BX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,580 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Daewoo Nubira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 76 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 3: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen BX)
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 200230A000108 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 2002.