A46 crash in Rushcliffe on 31 March 2000 at 17:35 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A46 in Rushcliffe at 17:35 on Friday 31 March 2000. The 22-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra was 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
- 31 Mar 2000
- Friday, 17:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.91218, longitude -1.01419, in the NG12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rushcliffe
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000317D20974
- Council area
- Rushcliffe
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 46
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 March 1981.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A46 in Rushcliffe, 21 March 1981
22 m awayRef 1981315310400
Slight
MG MGF crash on the A46 in Rushcliffe, 5 July 2002
36 m awayRef 20023102D3069
Serious
Seat Inca crash on the A46 in Rushcliffe, 3 June 2005
72 m awayRef 20053102D1488
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A46 in Rushcliffe, 24 January 2004
81 m awayRef 20043108D0388
Serious
Car crash on the A46 in Rushcliffe, 13 October 1987, ref 1987317Y43184
94 m awayRef 1987317Y43184
Fatal
Car crash on the A46 in Rushcliffe, 13 October 1987, ref 1987317Y42684
108 m awayRef 1987317Y42684
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2000317D20974 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rushcliffe road accident statistics for 2000.