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A60 crash in Mansfield on 6 March 1979 at 19:40 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on the A60 in Mansfield at 19:40 on Tuesday 6 March 1979. An 18-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
6 Mar 1979
Tuesday, 19:40
Vehicles
2
Car and another
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.13238, longitude -1.19704, in the NG18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Mansfield.

Map of where the crash happened in Mansfield

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979312110369
Council area
Mansfield
Police force
Nottinghamshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
60
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Stop sign
Second road class
B
Second road number
6030

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 April 1997.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    20 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    19 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

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 1979312110369 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mansfield road accident statistics for 1979.