Serious A6 crash in High Peak on 30 November 2011 at 18:18 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A6 in High Peak at 18:18 on Wednesday 30 November 2011. The 20-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Nov 2011
- Wednesday, 18:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.27678, longitude -1.89139, in the SK17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in High Peak
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201130B000398
- Council area
- High Peak
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 August 2002.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A6 in High Peak, 19 August 2002
41 m awayRef 200230B000452
Serious
Car crash on the A6 in High Peak, 24 April 1988
57 m awayRef 1988308B00173
Serious
Car crash on the A6 in High Peak, 24 June 1991
57 m awayRef 1991301B00324
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A6 in High Peak, 15 August 1989
57 m awayRef 1989309B00431
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in High Peak, 15 June 1985
72 m awayRef 1985305B00296
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A6 in High Peak, 13 April 1990
72 m awayRef 1990300B00167
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
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 201130B000398 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the High Peak road accident statistics for 2011.