Serious unclassified road crash in Mansfield on 14 December 1986 at 14:00 involving a taxi
A taxi, a lorry and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Mansfield at 14:00 on Sunday 14 December 1986. A 52-year-old female passenger in the taxi was seriously injured and the 50-year-old male driver of the taxi and a 59-year-old male passenger in the taxi were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Dec 1986
- Sunday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Taxi and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986317F82034
- Council area
- Mansfield
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Taxi)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 52, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 59, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- 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 1986317F82034 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mansfield road accident statistics for 1986.