Fatal unclassified road crash in Nottingham NG4 on 28 February 1983 at 00:20 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Nottingham at 00:20 on Monday 28 February 1983. A 20-year-old male passenger was killed and four other people were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 28 Feb 1983
- Monday, 00:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 5
- 1 killed, 4 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.95481, longitude -1.09197, in the NG4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Carlton, Gedling.
Map of where the crash happened in Nottingham
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983314210540
- 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 19 March 2018.
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A612 in Gedling, 19 March 2018
1 m awayRef 201831D053018
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A612 in Gedling, 9 April 2006
10 m awayRef 20063102D0891
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A612 in Gedling, 26 April 2012
26 m awayRef 201231D083712
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 8 September 1979
30 m awayRef 1979314302215
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on the A612 in Gedling, 5 November 1997
32 m awayRef 1997317C42434
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Nottingham, 4 June 1980
32 m awayRef 1980314211071
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Passenger
FatalMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 5: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 1983314210540 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 1983.