Serious A6 crash in Amber Valley on 2 November 2014 at 04:33 involving a Mercedes lorry
A Mercedes lorry crashed on the A6 in Amber Valley at 04:33 on Sunday 2 November 2014. The 44-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Nov 2014
- Sunday, 04:33
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.0455, longitude -1.48356, in the DE56 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Amber Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014300010168
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 73 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 January 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in Amber Valley, 24 January 1982
73 m awayRef 1982302A00126
Slight
Vauxhall Calibra crash on the A60 in Amber Valley, 13 January 1997
73 m awayRef 1997307A00028
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A6 in Amber Valley, 11 December 2000
76 m awayRef 200030A000769
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A6 in Amber Valley, 9 December 2023
81 m awayRef 2023302301912
Fatal
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A6 in Amber Valley, 13 December 2008
98 m awayRef 200830A000638
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A6 in Amber Valley, 1 September 1996
106 m awayRef 1996306A00554
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 11,946 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 44, goods vehicle occupant (7.5 tonnes and over), in vehicle 1 (Mercedes)
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 2014300010168 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.