Unclassified road crash in Gedling NG4 on 4 December 1997 at 16:42 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Gedling at 16:42 on Thursday 4 December 1997. An 11-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 1997
- Thursday, 16:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.95579, longitude -1.0918, in the NG4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Carlton.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997317C42735
- Council area
- Gedling
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 1997317C42735 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 1997.