Serious B6179 crash in Amber Valley on 6 November 2017 at 15:20 involving an Audi Q3
An Audi Q3 hit a pedestrian on the B6179 in Amber Valley at 15:20 on Monday 6 November 2017. A 50-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Nov 2017
- Monday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi Q3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.05118, longitude -1.40496, in the DE5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ripley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ripley, Amber Valley, DE5 3SG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Amber Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017301701801
- Council area
- Amber Valley
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6179
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 6441
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 20 April 2022.
Slight
Car crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 20 April 2022
1 m awayRef 2022302200676
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 30 August 2022
1 m awayRef 2022302201466
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B6441 in Amber Valley, 7 March 2024
1 m awayRef 2024302400415
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 27 February 2017
1 m awayRef 2017301700360
Slight
Honda CR-V crash on the B6441 in Amber Valley, 5 December 2024
4 m awayRef 2024302500206
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B6441 in Amber Valley, 7 November 2018
8 m awayRef 2018301801602
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi Q3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 50, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi Q3)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017301701801 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.