A517 crash in the Derbyshire Dales on 12 April 2003 at 19:09 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A517 in the Derbyshire Dales at 19:09 on Saturday 12 April 2003. The 24-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Apr 2003
- Saturday, 19:09
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.01379, longitude -1.70141, in the DE6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Derbyshire Dales
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200330B000187
- Council area
- Derbyshire Dales
- 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
- 60 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, 51 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2011.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A517 in the Derbyshire Dales, 17 December 2011
51 m awayRef 201130B000415
Serious
Rover 400 Series crash on the A517 in the Derbyshire Dales, 14 October 2003
124 m awayRef 200330B000576
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A517 in the Derbyshire Dales, 23 December 1990
132 m awayRef 1990300B00708
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A517 in the Derbyshire Dales, 1 November 2020
155 m awayRef 2020302001586
Slight
Vauxhall Tigra crash on the A517 in the Derbyshire Dales, 14 June 2023
180 m awayRef 2023302300891
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A517 in the Derbyshire Dales, 9 October 1997
231 m awayRef 1997307B00611
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 24, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 200330B000187 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Derbyshire Dales road accident statistics for 2003.