Unclassified road crash in Amber Valley DE55 on 12 April 2009 at 12:45 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley at 12:45 on Sunday 12 April 2009. The male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Apr 2009
- Sunday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Vectra and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.0754, longitude -1.36558, in the DE55 postcode district and within the built-up area of Somercotes and Swanwick. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ironville & Riddings, Amber Valley, DE55 4DN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Amber Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200930A000176
- Council area
- Amber Valley
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 November 1996.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 20 November 1996
20 m awayRef 1996306A00745
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 13 July 1981
80 m awayRef 1981301A01315
Slight
Car crash on the B600 in Amber Valley, 8 March 1985
80 m awayRef 1985305A00147
Slight
Rover SD1 crash on the B600 in Amber Valley, 22 June 1991
80 m awayRef 1991301A00359
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 27 October 2025
95 m awayRef 2025302501859
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 31 July 1986
102 m awayRef 1986306A00453
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 200930A000176 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 2009.