Unclassified road crash in Gedling NG4 on 12 May 1979 at 12:50 involving a van
A van crashed on an unclassified road in Gedling at 12:50 on Saturday 12 May 1979. The 32-year-old male driver 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
- Slight
- Date
- 12 May 1979
- Saturday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.98204, longitude -1.10287, in the NG4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Carlton.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979314301173
- Council area
- Gedling
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 January 2004.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 17 January 2004
10 m awayRef 20043108D0247
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 5 June 2015
45 m awayRef 201531D106615
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 18 August 1991
72 m awayRef 1991317X20567
Slight
MG ZR crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 9 February 2015
80 m awayRef 201531D021115
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 20 November 1987
81 m awayRef 1987317X43070
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 24 December 2003
81 m awayRef 20033102D9169
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 1979314301173 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gedling road accident statistics for 1979.