Serious A515 crash in the Derbyshire Dales on 31 May 2020 at 17:45 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A Suzuki motorcycle crashed on the A515 in the Derbyshire Dales at 17:45 on Sunday 31 May 2020. The 26-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 May 2020
- Sunday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.23597, longitude -1.83336, 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
- 2020302000639
- 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
- 515
- 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
- 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, 57 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 January 2014.
Slight
Kia Soul crash on the A5270 in the Derbyshire Dales, 23 January 2014
57 m awayRef 2014300004996
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A5270 in the Derbyshire Dales, 8 December 2012
77 m awayRef 201230B002552
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A5270 in the Derbyshire Dales, 18 July 1991
80 m awayRef 1991301B00385
Serious
Car crash on the A5270 in the Derbyshire Dales, 18 August 1984
98 m awayRef 1984304B00395
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A5270 in the Derbyshire Dales, 23 August 1997
98 m awayRef 1997307B00517
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A5270 in the Derbyshire Dales, 9 August 1991
120 m awayRef 1991301B00421
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2020302000639 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 2020.