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Serious A608 crash in Broxtowe on 25 September 1981 at 23:35 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A608 in Broxtowe at 23:35 on Friday 25 September 1981. A 16-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
25 Sep 1981
Friday, 23:35
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.04077, longitude -1.31016, in the NG16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brinsley and Underwood.

Map of where the crash happened in Broxtowe

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1981314101950
Council area
Broxtowe
Police force
Nottinghamshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
608
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
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 January 2023.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

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

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere

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 1981314101950 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Broxtowe road accident statistics for 1981.