Serious C road crash in Amber Valley DE56 on 17 November 2011 at 22:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in Amber Valley at 22:20 on Thursday 17 November 2011. The 18-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Nov 2011
- Thursday, 22:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.06662, longitude -1.52763, in the DE56 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Amber Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201130C000861
- Council area
- Amber Valley
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, lighting unknown
- 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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 August 2025.
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 15 August 2025
12 m awayRef 2025302501537
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Amber Valley, 30 October 1989
283 m awayRef 1989309A00718
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Amber Valley, 1 April 1996
287 m awayRef 1996306A00213
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 9 July 1997
297 m awayRef 1997307A00434
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Amber Valley, 8 June 1984
361 m awayRef 1984304A00339
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Amber Valley, 18 May 2003
361 m awayRef 200330A000268
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 98 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 201130C000861 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.