A626 crash in High Peak on 7 November 2018 at 19:40 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series, a Ford Focus and a car were involved in a crash on the A626 in High Peak at 19:40 on Wednesday 7 November 2018. The 38-year-old female driver of the BMW 1 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Nov 2018
- Wednesday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 3
- BMW 1 Series and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.4381, longitude -1.98859, in the SK13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in High Peak
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018301801608
- Council area
- High Peak
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 626
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 November 2024.
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A626 in High Peak, 12 November 2024
2 m awayRef 2024302401608
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in High Peak, 17 June 2005
26 m awayRef 200530B000314
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in High Peak, 22 May 2001
26 m awayRef 200130B000287
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A626 in High Peak, 14 December 1991
59 m awayRef 1991301B00668
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in High Peak, 15 February 2006
89 m awayRef 200630B000066
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A626 in High Peak, 7 October 1988
95 m awayRef 1988308B00507
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 1 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018301801608 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the High Peak road accident statistics for 2018.