A617 crash in Bolsover on 19 December 2007 at 16:30 involving a Subaru Impreza
A Subaru Impreza and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A617 in Bolsover at 16:30 on Wednesday 19 December 2007. The 33-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2007
- Wednesday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Subaru Impreza and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.19314, longitude -1.314, in the S44 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ault Hucknall, Bolsover, S44 5NW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bolsover
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200730C000751
- Council area
- Bolsover
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 617
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 57 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 April 2015.
Serious
Audi A4 crash on the A617 in Bolsover, 6 April 2015
57 m awayRef 2015300013127
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A617 in Bolsover, 24 December 1995
58 m awayRef 1995305C00852
Slight
Renault 21 crash on an unclassified road in Bolsover, 30 August 2000
108 m awayRef 200030C000583
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Bolsover, 29 May 2004
108 m awayRef 200430C000343
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on an unclassified road in Bolsover, 25 October 2025
110 m awayRef 2025302501673
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Bolsover, 19 September 2019
119 m awayRef 2019301901347
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Subaru Impreza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200730C000751 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bolsover road accident statistics for 2007.