A61 crash in Amber Valley on 15 October 2007 at 18:15 involving a Ford Fiesta
A car and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A61 in Amber Valley at 18:15 on Monday 15 October 2007. The 65-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Oct 2007
- Monday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.0894, longitude -1.39553, in the DE55 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Swanwick, Amber Valley, DE55 1FL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200730A000555
- Council area
- Amber Valley
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 61
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 61
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 19 June 2002.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A61 in Amber Valley, 19 June 2002
At the same spotRef 200230A000370
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A61 in Amber Valley, 22 July 2011
At the same spotRef 201130C000532
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A61 in Amber Valley, 15 October 2007
At the same spotRef 200730A000547
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A61 in Amber Valley, 19 March 2025
4 m awayRef 2025302500426
Slight
Skoda Rapid crash on the A61 in Amber Valley, 12 January 2019
4 m awayRef 2019301900022
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A61 in Amber Valley, 25 April 2017
4 m awayRef 2017301700747
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 65 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 957 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200730A000555 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 2007.