B6179 crash in Amber Valley on 16 April 2011 at 21:00 involving an MG ZR
An MG ZR and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley at 21:00 on Saturday 16 April 2011. A 27-year-old male passenger in the MG ZR was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Apr 2011
- Saturday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- MG ZR and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.07521, longitude -1.39842, 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 Swanwick, Amber Valley, DE55 1FE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Amber Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201130C000307
- Council area
- Amber Valley
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6179
- 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 unlit
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 November 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 18 November 2013
10 m awayRef 2013300003804
Slight
Optare crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 6 March 2017
15 m awayRef 2017301700436
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 10 October 2025
19 m awayRef 2025302501827
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A61 in Amber Valley, 11 May 1983
20 m awayRef 1983303A00849
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 1 July 1992
20 m awayRef 1992302A00205
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 21 November 2020
20 m awayRef 2020302001365
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: MG ZR
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (MG ZR)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 201130C000307 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 2011.