A53 crash in High Peak on 29 April 2020 at 17:20 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on the A53 in High Peak at 17:20 on Wednesday 29 April 2020. The 32-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra and the 49-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Vectra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Apr 2020
- Wednesday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.25776, longitude -1.92126, in the SK17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Buxton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Temple, High Peak, SK17 6HQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in High Peak
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020302000547
- Council area
- High Peak
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 53
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 April 2015.
Slight
Yamaha FZ8 crash on the A53 in High Peak, 21 April 2015
2 m awayRef 2015300013449
Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A53 in High Peak, 31 December 2008
2 m awayRef 200830B000560
Serious
Hyundai i20 crash on the A53 in High Peak, 7 January 2025
3 m awayRef 2025302500036
Slight
Triumph Thunderbird crash on the A53 in High Peak, 20 June 2025
3 m awayRef 2025302501269
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A53 in High Peak, 10 August 2005
10 m awayRef 200530B000403
Slight
Yamaha R6 crash on the A53 in High Peak, 4 May 2006
10 m awayRef 200630B000177
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- 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 2020302000547 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 2020.