Serious A6 crash in High Peak on 19 September 2013 at 14:45 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A Suzuki motorcycle and a lorry were involved in a crash on the A6 in High Peak at 14:45 on Thursday 19 September 2013. The 42-year-old female rider of the Suzuki motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Sep 2013
- Thursday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki and lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.24933, longitude -1.86164, in the SK17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in High Peak
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013300002598
- Council area
- High Peak
- 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
- 50 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 58 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 May 2017.
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on the A6 in High Peak, 20 May 2017
58 m awayRef 2017301701035
Serious
Yamaha R6 crash on the A6 in High Peak, 16 July 2001
58 m awayRef 200130B000407
Fatal
Car crash on the A6 in High Peak, 9 December 1987
71 m awayRef 1987307B00608
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A6 in High Peak, 15 October 2000
72 m awayRef 200030B000592
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A6 in High Peak, 11 December 2006
73 m awayRef 200630B000585
Serious
Kawasaki ZX1100 crash on the A6 in High Peak, 9 November 2006
95 m awayRef 200630B000530
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 42, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
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 2013300002598 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the High Peak road accident statistics for 2013.