Unclassified road crash in Amber Valley DE55 on 5 October 2018 at 21:44 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Amber Valley at 21:44 on Friday 5 October 2018. A 27-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Oct 2018
- Friday, 21:44
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.06828, longitude -1.36581, in the DE55 postcode district and within the built-up area of Somercotes and Swanwick. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ironville & Riddings, Amber Valley, DE55 4DN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Amber Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018301801458
- Council area
- Amber Valley
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 44 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 January 2011.
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 7 January 2011
44 m awayRef 201130C000012
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 5 June 2014
55 m awayRef 2014300007360
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 8 October 1992
76 m awayRef 1992302A00322
Serious
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 19 January 2023
77 m awayRef 2023302300110
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 26 November 2008
77 m awayRef 200830A000610
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 21 April 2002
117 m awayRef 200230A000224
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 27, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most 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 2018301801458 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.