Serious A615 crash in Amber Valley on 25 May 2019 at 12:24 involving a Toyota RAV4
A motorcycle and a Toyota RAV4 were involved in a crash on the A615 in Amber Valley at 12:24 on Saturday 25 May 2019. The 21-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 May 2019
- Saturday, 12:24
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Toyota RAV4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.12836, longitude -1.48865, in the DE4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ashover, North East Derbyshire, DE55 6ER area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Amber Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019301900706
- Council area
- Amber Valley
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 615
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 September 2019.
Serious
Mercedes B Class crash on the A615 in Amber Valley, 11 September 2019
2 m awayRef 2019301901240
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A615 in Amber Valley, 18 September 2024
2 m awayRef 2024302401485
Slight
Honda crash on the A615 in Amber Valley, 7 January 2018
3 m awayRef 2018301800044
Slight
New Holland crash on the A615 in Amber Valley, 9 September 2014
4 m awayRef 2014300009112
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A615 in Amber Valley, 23 February 2001
4 m awayRef 200130A000133
Serious
Skoda Scala crash on the A615 in Amber Valley, 9 July 2021
4 m awayRef 2021302101006
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Toyota RAV4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- 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 2019301900706 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 2019.