Serious unclassified road crash in High Peak SK17 on 28 September 2003 at 15:50 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on an unclassified road in High Peak at 15:50 on Sunday 28 September 2003. There were five casualties: one person was seriously injured and four were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Sep 2003
- Sunday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 5
- 1 seriously injured, 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.22819, longitude -1.94664, in the SK17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in High Peak
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200330B000550
- Council area
- High Peak
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 53
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 June 2012.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A53 in High Peak, 5 June 2012
At the same spotRef 201230B000979
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on the A53 in High Peak, 29 August 2022
4 m awayRef 2022302201457
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on the A53 in High Peak, 20 April 2024
13 m awayRef 2024302400617
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A53 in High Peak, 13 March 2003
14 m awayRef 200330B000134
Serious
Yamaha XT 600 crash on the A53 in High Peak, 20 April 2019
16 m awayRef 2019301900465
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A53 in High Peak, 21 June 2024
19 m awayRef 2024302400917
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 4, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 5: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 200330B000550 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 2003.