A60 crash in Gedling on 5 December 2000 at 16:05 involving a Mercedes 200
A Mercedes 200 and a Mazda MX-5 were involved in a crash on the A60 in Gedling at 16:05 on Tuesday 5 December 2000. The 41-year-old female driver of the Mercedes 200 and the 32-year-old female driver of the Mazda MX-5 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 2000
- Tuesday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes 200 and Mazda MX-5
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.99352, longitude -1.13913, in the NG5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Gedling
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000317B42637
- Council area
- Gedling
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 60
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 6211
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 November 1990.
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A60 in Gedling, 15 November 1990
At the same spotRef 1990317K43286
Serious
Car crash on the A60 in Gedling, 8 May 1986
At the same spotRef 1986317K41147
Slight
Colt 1400 crash on the A60 in Gedling, 22 August 1996
At the same spotRef 1996317A41881
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A60 in Gedling, 13 April 1994
At the same spotRef 1994317A40809
Slight
Leyland crash on the A60 in Gedling, 16 December 1994
At the same spotRef 1994317A20518
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A60 in Gedling, 5 November 1998
At the same spotRef 1998317B20434
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes 200
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Mazda MX-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes 200)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mazda MX-5)
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 2000317B42637 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 2000.