C road crash in Bassetlaw DN22 on 24 February 2008 at 16:45 involving an MG ZR
An MG ZR and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on a C road in Bassetlaw at 16:45 on Sunday 24 February 2008. A 17-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Feb 2008
- Sunday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- MG ZR and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.33905, longitude -0.97688, in the DN22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bassetlaw
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20083102B0417
- Council area
- Bassetlaw
- 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
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
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The nearest, 10 metres away, was a fatal crash on 20 November 2020.
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: MG ZR
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 20083102B0417 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bassetlaw road accident statistics for 2008.