Serious B6374 crash in Amber Valley on 14 July 2002 at 22:42 involving a Toyota Landcruiser
A Toyota Landcruiser crashed on the B6374 in Amber Valley at 22:42 on Sunday 14 July 2002. The 33-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Jul 2002
- Sunday, 22:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Landcruiser
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.04862, longitude -1.42102, in the DE5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ripley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ripley & Marehay, Amber Valley, DE5 3GJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Amber Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200230A000410
- Council area
- Amber Valley
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6374
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 February 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the B6374 in Amber Valley, 22 February 1986
14 m awayRef 1986306A00115
Slight
Austin Allegro crash on the B6374 in Amber Valley, 14 April 1990
14 m awayRef 1990300A00258
Slight
Car crash on the B6374 in Amber Valley, 20 November 1989
14 m awayRef 1989309A00778
Serious
Skoda Fabia crash on the B6374 in Amber Valley, 27 November 2024
86 m awayRef 2024302401696
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B6374 in Amber Valley, 27 April 1991
91 m awayRef 1991301A00251
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B6374 in Amber Valley, 26 September 2001
100 m awayRef 200130A000536
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Landcruiser
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,982 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Landcruiser)
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 200230A000410 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.