A608 crash in Amber Valley on 16 September 2002 at 19:25 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A608 in Amber Valley at 19:25 on Monday 16 September 2002. The 18-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta and a female passenger in the Vauxhall Cavalier were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Sep 2002
- Monday, 19:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.01347, longitude -1.35069, in the DE75 postcode district and within the built-up area of Heanor. It is one of the crashes that make up the Heanor West & Loscoe, Amber Valley, DE75 7QF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Amber Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200230A000555
- 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
- 608
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 September 2023.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A608 in Amber Valley, 12 September 2023
8 m awayRef 2023302301426
Serious
Car crash on the A608 in Amber Valley, 13 April 2011
10 m awayRef 201130C000276
Slight
E-scooter crash on the A608 in Amber Valley, 8 December 2025
13 m awayRef 2025302501948
Slight
Lexmoto Isca 125 crash on the A608 in Amber Valley, 25 April 2022
13 m awayRef 2022302200685
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A608 in Amber Valley, 9 June 2024
21 m awayRef 2024302400793
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A608 in Amber Valley, 8 July 2004
22 m awayRef 200430A000370
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- 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 200230A000555 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.