B6179 crash in Amber Valley on 17 January 2014 at 20:15 involving a Piaggio Typhoon motorcycle
A car and a Piaggio Typhoon motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley at 20:15 on Friday 17 January 2014. The 20-year-old female rider of the Piaggio Typhoon motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jan 2014
- Friday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Piaggio Typhoon
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.05286, longitude -1.40545, in the DE5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ripley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ripley, Amber Valley, DE5 3SG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Amber Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014300004878
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 February 2013.
Slight
Piaggio Xevo crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 7 February 2013
10 m awayRef 201330C000225
Slight
Honda C90 crash on a C road in Amber Valley, 14 July 2004
10 m awayRef 200430A000380
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 28 July 2025
12 m awayRef 2025302501173
Slight
Vauxhall Crossland crash on a C road in Amber Valley, 18 December 2019
13 m awayRef 2019301901796
Serious
Scania crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 1 April 2004
14 m awayRef 200430A000189
Slight
Chevrolet Spark crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 20 December 2016
17 m awayRef 2016301700469
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
Vehicle 2: Piaggio Typhoon
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Piaggio Typhoon)
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 2014300004878 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 2014.