A609 crash in Amber Valley on 9 December 2007 at 02:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A609 in Amber Valley at 02:00 on Sunday 9 December 2007. A 22-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Dec 2007
- Sunday, 02:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.02309, longitude -1.47921, in the DE56 postcode district and within the built-up area of Belper. It is one of the crashes that make up the Belper North, Amber Valley, DE56 1HH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Amber Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200730A000685
- 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
- 609
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2010.
Slight
Optare Solo crash on the A609 in Amber Valley, 17 December 2010
10 m awayRef 201030C000887
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 1 March 2007
20 m awayRef 200730A000133
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 26 April 2001
22 m awayRef 200130A000254
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A609 in Amber Valley, 1 October 2002
22 m awayRef 200230A000585
Serious
Audi Coupe crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 12 December 2000
22 m awayRef 200030A000774
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 23 February 2006
30 m awayRef 200630A000115
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 22, hit by 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 200730A000685 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.