Serious A50 crash in the Derbyshire Dales on 28 August 2016 at 11:38 involving a Suzuki Swift
A Suzuki Swift and a Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A50 in the Derbyshire Dales at 11:38 on Sunday 28 August 2016. The 49-year-old male rider of the Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Aug 2016
- Sunday, 11:38
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki Swift and Suzuki SV 650
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.88414, longitude -1.75396, in the DE6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Doveridge & Sudbury, Derbyshire Dales, DE6 5AG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the Derbyshire Dales
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016301600323
- Council area
- Derbyshire Dales
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 50
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 March 2022.
Slight
Kia Ceed crash on the A50 in the Derbyshire Dales, 17 March 2022
16 m awayRef 2022302200446
Slight
Ford Puma crash on the A50 in the Derbyshire Dales, 1 November 2025
19 m awayRef 2025302501691
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on the A50 in the Derbyshire Dales, 2 July 2017
20 m awayRef 2017301701349
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A50 in the Derbyshire Dales, 17 September 2011
28 m awayRef 201130B000305
Slight
Scania crash on the A50 in the Derbyshire Dales, 23 May 2022
35 m awayRef 2022302200869
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A50 in the Derbyshire Dales, 26 August 2000
37 m awayRef 200030B000503
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,328 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Suzuki SV 650
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 645 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 49, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki SV 650)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
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 2016301600323 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 2016.