Serious A619 crash in the Derbyshire Dales on 24 July 2018 at 07:00 involving a Skoda Octavia
A Skoda Octavia hit a pedestrian on the A619 in the Derbyshire Dales at 07:00 on Tuesday 24 July 2018. An 80-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Jul 2018
- Tuesday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Octavia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.21329, longitude -1.67512, in the DE45 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bakewell. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bakewell, Derbyshire Dales, DE45 1EA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the Derbyshire Dales
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018301801031
- 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
- 619
- 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
- 619
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 May 2007.
Slight
Peugeot Trekker crash on the A619 in the Derbyshire Dales, 22 May 2007
8 m awayRef 200730B000277
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A619 in the Derbyshire Dales, 8 December 2010
8 m awayRef 201030B000419
Slight
Car crash on the A619 in the Derbyshire Dales, 6 May 1986
18 m awayRef 1986306B00199
Slight
Leyland crash on the A619 in the Derbyshire Dales, 24 November 1994
18 m awayRef 1994304F00373
Serious
Citroen BX crash on the A619 in the Derbyshire Dales, 21 May 1996
18 m awayRef 1996306B00249
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A619 in the Derbyshire Dales, 19 June 1987
18 m awayRef 1987307B00294
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Octavia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 80, hit by vehicle 1 (Skoda Octavia)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 2018301801031 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 2018.