A50 crash in the Derbyshire Dales on 17 September 2011 at 08:30 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van and a Renault Clio were involved in a crash on the A50 in the Derbyshire Dales at 08:30 on Saturday 17 September 2011. The 22-year-old male driver of the Renault Clio and a 42-year-old male passenger in the Renault Clio were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Sep 2011
- Saturday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes Sprinter and Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.88401, longitude -1.75432, in the DE6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Doveridge & Sudbury, Derbyshire Dales, DE6 5AG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the Derbyshire Dales
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201130B000305
- Council area
- Derbyshire Dales
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 50
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 50
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 August 2005.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A50 in the Derbyshire Dales, 2 August 2005
10 m awayRef 200530B000383
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A50 in the Derbyshire Dales, 26 August 2000
10 m awayRef 200030B000503
Slight
Kia Ceed crash on the A50 in the Derbyshire Dales, 17 March 2022
12 m awayRef 2022302200446
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on the A50 in the Derbyshire Dales, 2 July 2017
13 m awayRef 2017301701349
Slight
Scania crash on the A50 in the Derbyshire Dales, 23 May 2022
16 m awayRef 2022302200869
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A50 in the Derbyshire Dales, 15 May 2025
21 m awayRef 2025302501022
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Hit object in carriageway
- Central island of roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Hit object in carriageway
- Central island of roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Clio)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Clio)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201130B000305 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Derbyshire Dales road accident statistics for 2011.