A61 crash in Amber Valley on 23 January 2017 at 10:45 involving a Honda CBF125M motorcycle
A minibus and a Honda CBF125M motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A61 in Amber Valley at 10:45 on Monday 23 January 2017. The 17-year-old female rider of the Honda CBF125M motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jan 2017
- Monday, 10:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Minibus and Honda CBF125M
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.08972, longitude -1.39594, in the DE55 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Swanwick, Amber Valley, DE55 1FL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Amber Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017301700672
- 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
- 61
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 61
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 August 2021.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A61 in Amber Valley, 27 August 2021
7 m awayRef 2021302101294
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the A61 in Amber Valley, 5 August 1999
27 m awayRef 199930A000450
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A61 in Amber Valley, 1 October 2018
32 m awayRef 2018301801435
Slight
Suzuki Ignis crash on the A61 in Amber Valley, 23 January 2017
32 m awayRef 2017301700173
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A61 in Amber Valley, 13 December 2010
34 m awayRef 201030C000875
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A61 in Amber Valley, 31 July 2022
38 m awayRef 2022302201275
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Minibus
Minibus (8 to 16 seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Honda CBF125M
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda CBF125M)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most 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 2017301700672 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 2017.