A6 crash in the Derbyshire Dales on 6 May 2012 at 14:14 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Yamaha motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A6 in the Derbyshire Dales at 14:14 on Sunday 6 May 2012. The 20-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 May 2012
- Sunday, 14:14
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.13022, longitude -1.56056, in the DE4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cromford & Matlock Bath, Derbyshire Dales, DE4 3PT 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
- 201230B000669
- 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
- 6
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 August 2012.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A6 in the Derbyshire Dales, 26 August 2012
At the same spotRef 201230B001606
Slight
Triumph Street Triple crash on the A6 in the Derbyshire Dales, 21 October 2018
6 m awayRef 2018301801503
Serious
Yamaha YZF crash on the A6 in the Derbyshire Dales, 31 August 2025
6 m awayRef 2025302501341
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in the Derbyshire Dales, 4 April 1983
20 m awayRef 1983303B00548
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in the Derbyshire Dales, 23 July 1987
20 m awayRef 1987307B00357
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A6 in the Derbyshire Dales, 5 June 1979
20 m awayRef 1979309B00779
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 79 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (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 201230B000669 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 2012.