A6117 crash in Mansfield on 19 September 2002 at 23:00 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Toyota Space Cruiser were involved in a crash on the A6117 in Mansfield at 23:00 on Thursday 19 September 2002. The 34-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf and the 36-year-old female driver of the Toyota Space Cruiser were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Sep 2002
- Thursday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Toyota Space Cruiser
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.14531, longitude -1.15882, in the NG18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Mansfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ling Forest, Mansfield, NG18 3HJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mansfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20023102A2240
- Council area
- Mansfield
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6117
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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 23 May 2000.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A6117 in Mansfield, 23 May 2000
At the same spotRef 2000317A80706
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Mansfield, 12 November 1988
At the same spotRef 1988317F81857
Slight
Volkswagen Lupo crash on the A6117 in Mansfield, 31 January 2004
At the same spotRef 20043102A0420
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A6117 in Mansfield, 19 April 2011
At the same spotRef 201131A085711
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Mansfield, 22 August 1988
At the same spotRef 1988317F81332
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A6117 in Mansfield, 15 April 1997
At the same spotRef 1997317M20276
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,272 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Space Cruiser
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Space Cruiser)
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 20023102A2240 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mansfield road accident statistics for 2002.