Unclassified road crash in Amber Valley DE56 on 12 September 2003 at 22:00 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on an unclassified road in Amber Valley at 22:00 on Friday 12 September 2003. The 25-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Sep 2003
- Friday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.02654, longitude -1.46664, in the DE56 postcode district and within the built-up area of Belper. It is one of the crashes that make up the Belper East, Amber Valley, DE56 1RY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200330A000512
- 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 February 2010.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A609 in Amber Valley, 12 February 2010
At the same spotRef 201030A000063
Fatal
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A609 in Amber Valley, 8 March 2002
10 m awayRef 200230A000152
Serious
Ford KA crash on the A609 in Amber Valley, 8 October 2008
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Slight
Smart Forfour crash on the A609 in Amber Valley, 3 March 2019
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Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A609 in Amber Valley, 9 August 2025
20 m awayRef 2025302501235
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 24 November 1980
42 m awayRef 1980300A02211
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200330A000512 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.