Unclassified road crash in Amber Valley DE5 on 5 September 2022 at 16:45 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra, a Kia Sportage and a van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley at 16:45 on Monday 5 September 2022. The 42-year-old female driver of the Kia Sportage was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Sep 2022
- Monday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Astra and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.04994, longitude -1.4164, in the DE5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ripley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ripley, Amber Valley, DE5 3SG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Amber Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022302201488
- Council area
- Amber Valley
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 35 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 May 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 16 May 2014
35 m awayRef 2014300007003
Slight
Vauxhall Chevette crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 10 July 1997
48 m awayRef 1997307A00447
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 8 July 1983
59 m awayRef 1983303A01239
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 30 March 1980
59 m awayRef 1980300A00529
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 10 March 1992
92 m awayRef 1992302A00085
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Amber Valley, 14 August 1982
92 m awayRef 1982302A01432
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- 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
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Kia Sportage
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,591 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Kia Sportage)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2022302201488 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 2022.