Serious B6179 crash in Amber Valley on 5 April 2025 at 17:46 involving a Peugeot 208
A Peugeot 208, a Land Rover Discovery and a car were involved in a crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley at 17:46 on Saturday 5 April 2025. The 35-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 208 was seriously injured and the 58-year-old female driver of the Land Rover Discovery was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Apr 2025
- Saturday, 17:46
- Vehicles
- 3
- Peugeot 208 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.04853, longitude -1.40655, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025302500543
- Council area
- Amber Valley
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6179
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 August 2023.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 10 August 2023
11 m awayRef 2023302301233
Serious
Lexmoto LXR crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 17 June 2022
11 m awayRef 2022302201049
Fatal
ERF crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 1 October 2001
11 m awayRef 200130A000555
Slight
Fiat Bravo crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 22 January 2001
11 m awayRef 200130A000044
Slight
Toyota Landcruiser crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 10 December 2001
11 m awayRef 200130A000730
Serious
Vehicle crash on the B6179 in Amber Valley, 30 November 2001
11 m awayRef 200130A000700
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 208
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Discovery
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 208)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Land Rover Discovery)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025302500543 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 2025.