A621 crash in the Derbyshire Dales on 17 November 2020 at 21:14 involving a Citroen C5
A Citroen C5 crashed on the A621 in the Derbyshire Dales at 21:14 on Tuesday 17 November 2020. The 47-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Nov 2020
- Tuesday, 21:14
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.26081, longitude -1.58996, in the DE45 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chatsworth, Derbyshire Dales, DE45 1PQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the Derbyshire Dales
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020302001639
- 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
- 621
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 November 2025.
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A621 in the Derbyshire Dales, 18 November 2025
7 m awayRef 2025302501777
Slight
Suzuki GSXR 600 crash on the A621 in the Derbyshire Dales, 7 July 2007
50 m awayRef 200730B000370
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A621 in the Derbyshire Dales, 28 August 1979
60 m awayRef 1979309B01221
Slight
Kawasaki ZX550 crash on the A621 in the Derbyshire Dales, 16 June 1998
60 m awayRef 1998308B00369
Serious
Fiat Tipo crash on the A621 in the Derbyshire Dales, 13 September 1998
60 m awayRef 1998308B00598
Slight
Car crash on the A621 in the Derbyshire Dales, 3 August 1983
60 m awayRef 1983303B01292
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C5)
- 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 2020302001639 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.