Serious A60 crash in Gedling on 30 September 1985 at 11:45 involving a van
A van crashed on the A60 in Gedling at 11:45 on Monday 30 September 1985. A 28-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and a 21-year-old female passenger and a 19-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Sep 1985
- Monday, 11:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.03209, longitude -1.13732, in the NG5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Gedling
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985317K42657
- Council area
- Gedling
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 60
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 June 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A60 in Gedling, 20 June 1986
At the same spotRef 1986317K41558
Slight
Car crash on the A60 in Nottingham, 25 August 1984
At the same spotRef 198431BC12383
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A60 in Gedling, 14 April 2000
At the same spotRef 2000317B40834
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A60 in Gedling, 10 December 2003
At the same spotRef 20033102D8557
Fatal
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A60 in Gedling, 25 July 2021
8 m awayRef 202131D086221
Slight
Car crash on the A60 in Gedling, 5 April 1987
10 m awayRef 1987317K40817
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 28, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, 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 1985317K42657 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 1985.