A38 crash in Amber Valley on 23 December 2017 at 09:32 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A38 in Amber Valley at 09:32 on Saturday 23 December 2017. The 24-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2017
- Saturday, 09:32
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.0738, longitude -1.40864, in the DE55 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Swanwick, Amber Valley, DE55 1FE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Amber Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017301702091
- 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
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 May 2008.
Slight
Mercedes ML Class crash on the A38 in Amber Valley, 7 May 2008
8 m awayRef 200830A000234
Serious
Car crash on the A38 in Amber Valley, 24 March 2018
8 m awayRef 2018301800436
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on the A38 in Amber Valley, 28 June 2022
9 m awayRef 2022302201107
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A38 in Amber Valley, 30 October 2025
11 m awayRef 2025302501696
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A38 in Amber Valley, 12 August 2008
13 m awayRef 200830A000413
Fatal
Peugeot 406 crash on the A38 in Amber Valley, 27 August 2006
13 m awayRef 200630A000442
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 2017301702091 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.