B6179 crash in Amber Valley on 12 August 2018 at 00:25 involving a Kia Sportage
A Kia Sportage hit a pedestrian on the B6179 in Amber Valley at 00:25 on Sunday 12 August 2018. A 28-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Aug 2018
- Sunday, 00:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kia Sportage
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.05029, longitude -1.40547, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018301801139
- Council area
- Amber Valley
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6179
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 30 June 2015.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 30 June 2015
1 m awayRef 2015300014669
Slight
Honda CB600F crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 22 March 2007
1 m awayRef 200730A000170
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 21 June 2022
2 m awayRef 2022302201062
Slight
Proton Savvy crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 24 January 2015
9 m awayRef 2015300011881
Slight
Volvo crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 9 March 2017
13 m awayRef 2017301700879
Serious
Suzuki GSF 1250 crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 13 January 2009
15 m awayRef 200930A000020
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kia Sportage
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 76 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,591 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 28, hit by vehicle 1 (Kia Sportage)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- 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 2018301801139 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 2018.