B6179 crash in Amber Valley on 12 October 2013 at 14:29 involving a Daewoo Matiz
A Daewoo Matiz crashed on the B6179 in Amber Valley at 14:29 on Saturday 12 October 2013. The 26-year-old female driver and an 8-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 2013
- Saturday, 14:29
- Vehicles
- 1
- Daewoo Matiz
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.06077, longitude -1.4037, in the DE5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ripley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Crich & South Wingfield, Amber Valley, DE5 3SW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Amber Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013300002987
- Council area
- Amber Valley
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6179
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 March 2024.
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 24 March 2024
6 m awayRef 2024302400488
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 9 November 2002
10 m awayRef 200230A000663
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 26 November 2017
10 m awayRef 2017301701934
Slight
MG ZR crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 29 April 2010
22 m awayRef 201030C000228
Slight
Car crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 30 November 2013
28 m awayRef 2013300004342
Slight
Hyundai Coupe crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 3 October 2015
28 m awayRef 2015300016083
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Daewoo Matiz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Daewoo Matiz)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 8, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Daewoo Matiz)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2013300002987 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 2013.