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Serious A612 crash in Gedling on 24 December 1997 at 13:17 involving a Ford Fiesta

A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on the A612 in Gedling at 13:17 on Wednesday 24 December 1997. A 73-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
24 Dec 1997
Wednesday, 13:17
Vehicles
1
Ford Fiesta
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.98541, longitude -1.03994, in the NG14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Carlton.

Map of where the crash happened in Gedling

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1997317C42911
Council area
Gedling
Police force
Nottinghamshire
Highway authority
Nottinghamshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
612
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 April 1994.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    23 years
    Engine capacity
    999 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    7 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 73, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)

    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 1997317C42911 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.