A517 crash in Amber Valley on 12 September 2002 at 16:30 involving a Renault Trafic van
A Renault Trafic van hit a pedestrian on the A517 in Amber Valley at 16:30 on Thursday 12 September 2002. A 13-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Sep 2002
- Thursday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Trafic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.02279, longitude -1.53542, in the DE56 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Amber Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200230A000543
- 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
- 517
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 February 2015.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A517 in Amber Valley, 16 February 2015
14 m awayRef 2015300012248
Serious
Volvo crash on the A517 in Amber Valley, 10 October 2007
22 m awayRef 200730A000542
Slight
Car crash on the A517 in Amber Valley, 17 December 2025
34 m awayRef 2025302502050
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A517 in Amber Valley, 7 June 2009
45 m awayRef 200930A000264
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A517 in Amber Valley, 23 December 1992
89 m awayRef 1992302A00461
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A517 in Amber Valley, 15 August 2019
116 m awayRef 2019301901122
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Trafic
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,068 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Trafic)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 200230A000543 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.