A621 crash in the Derbyshire Dales on 7 February 2017 at 08:20 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Seat Exeo were involved in a crash on the A621 in the Derbyshire Dales at 08:20 on Tuesday 7 February 2017. The 49-year-old male driver of the Seat Exeo and the 34-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Feb 2017
- Tuesday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Seat Exeo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.25544, longitude -1.60035, in the DE45 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Derbyshire Dales
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017301700705
- 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
- 621
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 61 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 July 2003.
Serious
Nissan Cabstar crash on the A624 in the Derbyshire Dales, 30 July 2003
61 m awayRef 200330B000426
Fatal
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A621 in the Derbyshire Dales, 14 November 1995
68 m awayRef 1995305B00669
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A621 in the Derbyshire Dales, 26 October 2003
71 m awayRef 200330B000626
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A621 in the Derbyshire Dales, 15 December 1997
79 m awayRef 1997307B00769
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on the A621 in the Derbyshire Dales, 25 January 2020
89 m awayRef 2020302000109
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A621 in the Derbyshire Dales, 20 July 1991
91 m awayRef 1991301B00388
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Seat Exeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Seat Exeo)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 2017301700705 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 2017.