A517 crash in Amber Valley on 16 February 2015 at 13:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on the A517 in Amber Valley at 13:00 on Monday 16 February 2015. A 40-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Feb 2015
- Monday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.02272, longitude -1.53557, in the DE56 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Amber Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015300012248
- Council area
- Amber Valley
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 517
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 September 2002.
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on the A517 in Amber Valley, 12 September 2002
14 m awayRef 200230A000543
Serious
Volvo crash on the A517 in Amber Valley, 10 October 2007
36 m awayRef 200730A000542
Slight
Car crash on the A517 in Amber Valley, 17 December 2025
48 m awayRef 2025302502050
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A517 in Amber Valley, 7 June 2009
58 m awayRef 200930A000264
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A517 in Amber Valley, 23 December 1992
86 m awayRef 1992302A00461
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A517 in Amber Valley, 15 August 2019
127 m awayRef 2019301901122
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 2015300012248 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 2015.