A52 crash in Rushcliffe on 16 March 2007 at 01:15 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class crashed on the A52 in Rushcliffe at 01:15 on Friday 16 March 2007. The 18-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Mar 2007
- Friday, 01:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.94128, longitude -0.85117, in the NG13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rushcliffe
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20073102D0711
- 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
- 52
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 December 1990.
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A52 in Rushcliffe, 26 December 1990
41 m awayRef 1990317Y43780
Slight
Bus crash on the A52 in Rushcliffe, 2 July 1990
41 m awayRef 1990317Y20541
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A52 in Rushcliffe, 12 March 2004
50 m awayRef 20043102D0941
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A52 in Rushcliffe, 13 October 1994
50 m awayRef 1994317W20991
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A52 in Rushcliffe, 31 December 1999
81 m awayRef 1999317D21517
Slight
Car crash on the A52 in Rushcliffe, 12 December 1983
91 m awayRef 1983315301847
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,799 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
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 20073102D0711 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 2007.