Serious A623 crash in the Derbyshire Dales on 27 October 2018 at 13:45 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper, a BMW 3 Series and a Hyundai i10 were involved in a crash on the A623 in the Derbyshire Dales at 13:45 on Saturday 27 October 2018. The 25-year-old male driver of the Mini Cooper was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Oct 2018
- Saturday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mini Cooper and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.30197, longitude -1.80378, in the SK17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Derbyshire Dales
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018301801430
- 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
- 623
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- 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, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 September 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A623 in the Derbyshire Dales, 5 September 2001
16 m awayRef 200130B000505
Slight
Tesla Model Y crash on the A623 in the Derbyshire Dales, 4 March 2025
51 m awayRef 2025302500309
Serious
Jaguar XJ Series crash on the A623 in the Derbyshire Dales, 6 December 2020
67 m awayRef 2020302001441
Slight
Car crash on the A623 in the Derbyshire Dales, 8 December 1984
88 m awayRef 1984304B00607
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A623 in the Derbyshire Dales, 21 November 1990
88 m awayRef 1990300B00655
Slight
Car crash on the A623 in the Derbyshire Dales, 17 August 1985
90 m awayRef 1985305B00410
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Hyundai i10
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018301801430 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.