C road crash in Gedling NG4 on 23 November 2001 at 23:14 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on a C road in Gedling at 23:14 on Friday 23 November 2001. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Nov 2001
- Friday, 23:14
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.00153, longitude -1.05775, in the NG4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dumbles, Gedling, NG4 4PP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20013102D0451
- Council area
- Gedling
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 August 2017.
Slight
BMW R 1200 crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 28 August 2017
21 m awayRef 201731D168017
Slight
Minibus crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 17 October 1983
22 m awayRef 1983314202219
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 27 January 2018
34 m awayRef 201831D025318
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Gedling, 23 May 2014
40 m awayRef 201431D107614
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 8 July 1979
51 m awayRef 1979314301670
Slight
Volvo V40 crash on a C road in Gedling, 21 December 2008
91 m awayRef 20083102D3479
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 20013102D0451 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 2001.