C road crash in Gedling NG14 on 11 April 1998 at 11:41 involving a Ford Escort
A car and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on a C road in Gedling at 11:41 on Saturday 11 April 1998. The 22-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Apr 1998
- Saturday, 11:41
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.02382, longitude -1.06592, in the NG14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Gedling
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998317B40795
- Council area
- Gedling
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 January 1979.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 9 January 1979
22 m awayRef 1979314300071
Slight
Renault Clio crash on a C road in Gedling, 8 September 2009
22 m awayRef 20093102D2315
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 29 April 1983
36 m awayRef 1983314210904
Slight
Morris 440 crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 4 February 1991
50 m awayRef 1991317K20079
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover crash on a C road in Gedling, 20 December 2012
63 m awayRef 201231D289412
Slight
Mercedes crash on a C road in Gedling, 6 March 1998
81 m awayRef 1998317B20101
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
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 1998317B40795 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 1998.