A537 crash in High Peak on 9 February 2002 at 14:41 involving a Nissan Sunny
A Nissan Sunny and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on the A537 in High Peak at 14:41 on Saturday 9 February 2002. The 71-year-old male driver of the Nissan Sunny, the 29-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 206 and a 71-year-old female passenger in the Nissan Sunny were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Feb 2002
- Saturday, 14:41
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Sunny and Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.23593, longitude -1.97165, in the SK17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in High Peak
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200230B000070
- Council area
- High Peak
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 537
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 7 July 2002.
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on the A537 in High Peak, 7 July 2002
At the same spotRef 200230B000367
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A537 in High Peak, 19 December 2006
At the same spotRef 200630B000598
Serious
Audi A7 crash on the A537 in High Peak, 7 March 2022
4 m awayRef 2022302200387
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A537 in High Peak, 6 September 2025
4 m awayRef 2025302501378
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A537 in High Peak, 21 February 2001
10 m awayRef 200130B000089
Slight
Volkswagen crash on the A537 in High Peak, 13 November 2016
53 m awayRef 201630T353247
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Sunny
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Sunny)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 206)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Sunny)
- 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 200230B000070 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the High Peak road accident statistics for 2002.