A53 crash in High Peak on 10 August 2005 at 16:20 involving a Peugeot 307
A Peugeot 307 and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A53 in High Peak at 16:20 on Wednesday 10 August 2005. The 82-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 307 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Aug 2005
- Wednesday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 307 and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.25775, longitude -1.92142, in the SK17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Buxton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Temple, High Peak, SK17 6HQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in High Peak
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200530B000403
- 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
- 53
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 May 2006.
Slight
Yamaha R6 crash on the A53 in High Peak, 4 May 2006
At the same spotRef 200630B000177
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A53 in High Peak, 23 May 2012
At the same spotRef 201230B000954
Slight
Triumph Thunderbird crash on the A53 in High Peak, 20 June 2025
7 m awayRef 2025302501269
Serious
Hyundai i20 crash on the A53 in High Peak, 7 January 2025
7 m awayRef 2025302500036
Slight
Yamaha FZ8 crash on the A53 in High Peak, 21 April 2015
10 m awayRef 2015300013449
Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A53 in High Peak, 31 December 2008
10 m awayRef 200830B000560
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 82 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 82, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 307)
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 200530B000403 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 2005.