A52 crash in Rushcliffe on 13 December 2007 at 17:06 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class, a Volkswagen Beetle and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A52 in Rushcliffe at 17:06 on Thursday 13 December 2007. The 57-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Beetle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 2007
- Thursday, 17:06
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mercedes E Class and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.94199, longitude -1.04223, 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
- 20073104D4213
- 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
- 60 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 September 2005.
Slight
Optare Solo crash on the A52 in Rushcliffe, 12 September 2005
10 m awayRef 20053102D2491
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A52 in Rushcliffe, 20 July 2003
22 m awayRef 20033102D0815
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A52 in Rushcliffe, 27 May 2016
24 m awayRef 201631D104616
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A52 in Rushcliffe, 6 June 1991
41 m awayRef 1991317Y20454
Slight
Car crash on the A52 in Rushcliffe, 5 July 1985
50 m awayRef 1985317Y41817
Fatal
Peugeot 205 crash on the A52 in Rushcliffe, 11 June 1994
61 m awayRef 1994317W41236
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Beetle
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 3: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Beetle)
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 20073104D4213 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.