A38 crash in Amber Valley on 30 July 2017 at 01:55 involving a Ford Transit minibus
A Ford Transit minibus and a Mazda 3 were involved in a crash on the A38 in Amber Valley at 01:55 on Sunday 30 July 2017. The 22-year-old male driver of the Mazda 3 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jul 2017
- Sunday, 01:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Mazda 3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.02795, longitude -1.44277, 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
- 2017301701282
- 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
- 38
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 110 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 March 1999.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A38 in Amber Valley, 21 March 1999
110 m awayRef 1999309A00174
Slight
Citroen C1 crash on the A38 in Amber Valley, 19 September 2016
151 m awayRef 2016301600390
Serious
DAF Trucks FTG 85CF crash on the A38 in Amber Valley, 21 July 2005
167 m awayRef 200530A000355
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A38 in Amber Valley, 5 May 1999
198 m awayRef 199930A000260
Slight
Lorry crash on the A38 in Amber Valley, 14 February 1979
208 m awayRef 1979309A00300
Slight
Jaguar X Type crash on the A38 in Amber Valley, 30 December 2014
222 m awayRef 2014300011435
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Minibus (8 to 16 seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mazda 3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mazda 3)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017301701282 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.