Serious B6001 crash in the Derbyshire Dales on 25 January 2015 at 05:30 involving a Suzuki Swift
A Suzuki Swift crashed on the B6001 in the Derbyshire Dales at 05:30 on Sunday 25 January 2015. The 24-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Jan 2015
- Sunday, 05:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Swift
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.25191, longitude -1.66139, in the DE45 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Derbyshire Dales
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015300011982
- Council area
- Derbyshire Dales
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6001
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- 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, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 November 2025.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B6001 in the Derbyshire Dales, 10 November 2025
19 m awayRef 2025302501734
Fatal
Car crash on the B6001 in the Derbyshire Dales, 14 August 1979
22 m awayRef 1979309B01145
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B6001 in the Derbyshire Dales, 22 September 2017
26 m awayRef 2017301701597
Fatal
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B6001 in the Derbyshire Dales, 27 July 1996
81 m awayRef 1996306B00379
Serious
Car crash on the B6001 in the Derbyshire Dales, 3 March 1982
81 m awayRef 1982302B00307
Slight
Suzuki Jimny crash on the B6001 in the Derbyshire Dales, 22 February 2002
149 m awayRef 200230B000096
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Swift)
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 2015300011982 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Derbyshire Dales road accident statistics for 2015.