A606 crash in Rushcliffe on 27 December 2006 at 03:00 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the A606 in Rushcliffe at 03:00 on Wednesday 27 December 2006. The 36-year-old male driver was 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
- 27 Dec 2006
- Wednesday, 03:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.86242, longitude -1.04116, 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
- 20063102D3768
- Council area
- Rushcliffe
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 606
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 3 July 2006.
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A606 in Rushcliffe, 3 July 2006
At the same spotRef 20063104D1849
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A606 in Rushcliffe, 5 April 2018
6 m awayRef 201831D058918
Slight
Car crash on the A606 in Rushcliffe, 30 April 1983
10 m awayRef 1983315310626
Serious
Lorry crash on the A606 in Rushcliffe, 30 January 1979
14 m awayRef 1979315210165
Serious
Citroen Xantia crash on the A606 in Rushcliffe, 25 February 2004
22 m awayRef 20043108D0968
Slight
BMW 7 Series crash on the A606 in Rushcliffe, 21 April 2015
32 m awayRef 201531D072715
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 20063102D3768 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 2006.