A6520 crash in Rushcliffe on 18 December 2008 at 23:45 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A6520 in Rushcliffe at 23:45 on Thursday 18 December 2008. A 17-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2008
- Thursday, 23:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.938, longitude -1.1316, in the NG2 postcode district and within the built-up area of West Bridgford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Trent Bridge, Rushcliffe, NG2 6AB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rushcliffe
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20083102D3530
- 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
- 6520
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 March 2005.
Slight
Car crash on the A6520 in Rushcliffe, 21 March 2005
At the same spotRef 20053102D0674
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A6520 in Rushcliffe, 25 May 2003
At the same spotRef 20033102D0705
Slight
Van crash on the A6520 in Rushcliffe, 27 November 1987
10 m awayRef 1987317Y20864
Slight
Renault crash on the A6520 in Rushcliffe, 17 March 1992
10 m awayRef 1992317Y20219
Slight
Mercedes S Class crash on the A6520 in Rushcliffe, 14 January 2012
16 m awayRef 201231D004912
Slight
Seat Toledo crash on the A6520 in Rushcliffe, 9 April 2022
19 m awayRef 2022311165424
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North 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
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- 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 20083102D3530 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 2008.