Serious C road crash in Rushcliffe LE12 on 18 December 2003 at 06:31 involving a Ford Granada
A Ford Granada and a Citroen ZX were involved in a crash on a C road in Rushcliffe at 06:31 on Thursday 18 December 2003. The 56-year-old female driver of the Citroen ZX was seriously injured and the male driver of the Ford Granada was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Dec 2003
- Thursday, 06:31
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Granada and Citroen ZX
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.83539, longitude -1.24439, in the LE12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rushcliffe
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20033102D8987
- Council area
- Rushcliffe
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 104 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 January 2015.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Rushcliffe, 24 January 2015
104 m awayRef 201531D009215
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Rushcliffe, 10 December 1998
175 m awayRef 1998317D42681
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Rushcliffe, 27 October 2000
262 m awayRef 2000317D42256
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Rushcliffe, 29 April 1988
331 m awayRef 1988317Y20351
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Rushcliffe, 15 January 2016
651 m awayRef 201631D005916
Slight
Vauxhall Astravan crash on a C road in Rushcliffe, 14 December 2009
698 m awayRef 20093102D3212
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Granada
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen ZX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Granada)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen ZX)
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 20033102D8987 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 2003.