A50 crash in the Derbyshire Dales on 8 December 2016 at 20:05 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper, a Volkswagen Golf and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A50 in the Derbyshire Dales at 20:05 on Thursday 8 December 2016. The 53-year-old female driver of the Mini Cooper was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 2016
- Thursday, 20:05
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mini Cooper and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.90772, longitude -1.84155, in the ST14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Derbyshire Dales
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016301600825
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 March 2007.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A50 in the Derbyshire Dales, 3 March 2007
21 m awayRef 200730B000112
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A50 in the Derbyshire Dales, 25 October 2025
42 m awayRef 2025302501665
Serious
BMW 4 Series crash on the A50 in the Derbyshire Dales, 30 December 2015
47 m awayRef 2015300017339
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A50 in the Derbyshire Dales, 15 December 1995
47 m awayRef 1995305B00737
Serious
Car crash on the A50 in the Derbyshire Dales, 5 April 1987
47 m awayRef 1987307B00130
Slight
Leyland DAF FT 95 crash on the A50 in the Derbyshire Dales, 7 November 1996
55 m awayRef 1996306B00602
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,521 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2016301600825 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.