Unclassified road crash in Nottingham NG8 on 23 September 1979 at 04:30 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Nottingham at 04:30 on Sunday 23 September 1979. The 31-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Sep 1979
- Sunday, 04:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.98699, longitude -1.20466, in the NG8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Nottingham.
Map of where the crash happened in Nottingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979314112346
- Council area
- Nottingham
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 June 2015.
Slight
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Slight
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Serious
Car crash on the A610 in Nottingham, 13 September 1980
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Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A610 in Nottingham, 16 February 1997
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Slight
Leyland crash on the A610 in Nottingham, 23 April 1999
14 m awayRef 1999317B20785
Slight
Scania crash on the A610 in Nottingham, 7 June 2014
18 m awayRef 201431C112214
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, 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 1979314112346 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Nottingham road accident statistics for 1979.