Serious B686 crash in Nottingham on 17 May 1995 at 16:11 involving a Ford Orion
A Ford Orion and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the B686 in Nottingham at 16:11 on Wednesday 17 May 1995. The 28-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 May 1995
- Wednesday, 16:11
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Orion and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.96079, longitude -1.12222, in the NG3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Nottingham.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1995317C41044
- Council area
- Nottingham
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 686
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 2 February 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A612 in Nottingham, 2 February 1987
At the same spotRef 1987317X40253
Serious
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Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B686 in Nottingham, 19 August 2011
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Slight
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4 m awayRef 201231C056612
Serious
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Slight
Audi TT crash on the B686 in Nottingham, 6 October 2018
6 m awayRef 201831C199518
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 1995317C41044 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 1995.