Serious unclassified road crash in Amber Valley DE75 on 21 September 2011 at 08:25 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Amber Valley at 08:25 on Wednesday 21 September 2011. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Sep 2011
- Wednesday, 08:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.01086, longitude -1.36727, in the DE75 postcode district and within the built-up area of Heanor. It is one of the crashes that make up the Heanor West & Loscoe, Amber Valley, DE75 7QF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Amber Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201130C000699
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 608
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 December 2024.
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 3 December 2024
7 m awayRef 2024302500134
Serious
Nissan X-Trail crash on the A608 in Amber Valley, 17 October 2025
12 m awayRef 2025302501621
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A608 in Amber Valley, 31 August 1999
14 m awayRef 199930A000502
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on the A608 in Amber Valley, 21 February 2023
20 m awayRef 2023302300323
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A608 in Amber Valley, 6 December 2006
20 m awayRef 200630A000637
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A608 in Amber Valley, 22 September 2007
20 m awayRef 200730A000502
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 201130C000699 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.