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A517 crash in Amber Valley on 17 December 2025 at 19:34 involving a car

A car crashed on the A517 in Amber Valley at 19:34 on Wednesday 17 December 2025. The 42-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 50 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
17 Dec 2025
Wednesday, 19:34
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.02298, longitude -1.535, in the DE56 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Amber Valley

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2025302502050
Council area
Amber Valley
Police force
Derbyshire
Police attended the scene
Yes
Highway authority
Derbyshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
517
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
Dark, no street lighting
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

Enhanced collision data

How severity was recorded
From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
Estimated chance it was serious
0%
Estimated chance it was slight
100%

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 June 2009.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    East
    Position at junction
    Not at or within 20 metres of junction
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside and rebounded
    Hit object off carriageway
    Wall or fence
    First point of impact
    Front
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    42 years
    Driver home area deprivation
    20 to 30% least deprived
    Distance from driver's home
    Within 5 km

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Home area deprivation
    20 to 30% 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 2025302502050 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.