A38 crash in Ashfield on 31 October 1979 at 12:35 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A38 in Ashfield at 12:35 on Wednesday 31 October 1979. A 6-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 and the 56-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 1979
- Wednesday, 12:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.12132, longitude -1.27989, in the NG17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sutton in Ashfield.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979312201739
- Council area
- Ashfield
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 4 July 1982.
Serious
Car crash on the A38 in Ashfield, 4 July 1982
At the same spotRef 1982312211288
Slight
Bedford crash on the B6023 in Ashfield, 16 March 1990
At the same spotRef 1990317G80475
Serious
Van crash on the A38 in Ashfield, 13 May 1979
At the same spotRef 1979312210761
Serious
Car crash on the A38 in Ashfield, 12 March 1982
At the same spotRef 1982312210516
Slight
Volkswagen Lupo crash on the B6023 in Ashfield, 21 December 2007
10 m awayRef 20073102A4339
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A38 in Ashfield, 1 February 1987
20 m awayRef 1987317G80144
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Central island of roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1979312201739 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ashfield road accident statistics for 1979.