Unclassified road crash in Amber Valley DE55 on 5 July 2003 at 16:00 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A bicycle and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley at 16:00 on Saturday 5 July 2003. The 18-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jul 2003
- Saturday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.07485, longitude -1.3635, in the DE55 postcode district and within the built-up area of Somercotes and Swanwick. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ironville & Riddings, Amber Valley, DE55 4DN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200330A000375
- Council area
- Amber Valley
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 February 2006.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 2 February 2006
14 m awayRef 200630A000073
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 31 July 1986
57 m awayRef 1986306A00453
Serious
Citroen ZX crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 19 March 2006
67 m awayRef 200630A000155
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 27 October 1979
72 m awayRef 1979309A01772
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 21 April 1979
72 m awayRef 1979309A00696
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 27 October 2025
113 m awayRef 2025302501859
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 18, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 200330A000375 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 2003.