C road crash in Newark and Sherwood NG24 on 14 September 2000 at 15:00 involving a Ford Orion
A Ford Orion and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on a C road in Newark and Sherwood at 15:00 on Thursday 14 September 2000. The 29-year-old female driver of the Ford Orion, the 36-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort and a 37-year-old female passenger in the Ford Escort were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Sep 2000
- Thursday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Orion and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.08097, longitude -0.75997, in the NG24 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000317E81262
- Council area
- Newark and Sherwood
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 May 1999.
Slight
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Slight
Car crash on the A17 in Newark and Sherwood, 4 December 1982
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Serious
Austin Maestro crash on a C road in Newark and Sherwood, 21 October 1990
14 m awayRef 1990317S81765
Slight
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,608 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Orion)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2000317E81262 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newark and Sherwood road accident statistics for 2000.