A608 crash in Amber Valley on 17 September 2012 at 11:01 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A608 in Amber Valley at 11:01 on Monday 17 September 2012. The 16-year-old male cyclist and a 34-year-old female passenger in the car were slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Sep 2012
- Monday, 11:01
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.01816, longitude -1.33735, in the NG16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Heanor. It is one of the crashes that make up the Codnor, Langley Mill & Aldercar, Amber Valley, NG16 4AB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Amber Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201230C001716
- Council area
- Amber Valley
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 608
- 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 May 2019.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 8 May 2019
6 m awayRef 2019301900574
Slight
Yamaha XJR 1300 crash on the A608 in Amber Valley, 28 September 2007
10 m awayRef 200730A000518
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A608 in Amber Valley, 2 May 2012
10 m awayRef 201230C000859
Slight
Gilera Runner crash on the A608 in Amber Valley, 31 January 2012
10 m awayRef 201230C000134
Serious
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 27 March 2001
10 m awayRef 200130A000191
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on the A608 in Amber Valley, 19 February 2020
20 m awayRef 2020302000323
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 44 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 16, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 201230C001716 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 2012.