C road crash in Gedling NG14 on 24 May 1996 at 15:00 involving a Volvo 850
A car and a Volvo 850 were involved in a crash on a C road in Gedling at 15:00 on Friday 24 May 1996. The female driver of the Volvo 850 and a 70-year-old male passenger in the Volvo 850 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 May 1996
- Friday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volvo 850
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.05249, longitude -1.08739, in the NG14 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996317A41190
- Council area
- Gedling
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 September 2004.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Gedling, 13 September 2004
10 m awayRef 20043108D4924
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Gedling, 20 September 1992
32 m awayRef 1992317K42098
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on a C road in Gedling, 26 March 1998
85 m awayRef 1998317B40661
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Gedling, 20 April 2009
294 m awayRef 20093102D0993
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 13 July 2025
295 m awayRef 2025311615360
Slight
Fiat Ducato crash on a C road in Gedling, 14 July 2011
296 m awayRef 201131D182211
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
Vehicle 2: Volvo 850
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 2,435 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volvo 850)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volvo 850)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 1996317A41190 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 1996.