A38 crash in Mansfield on 22 July 2010 at 08:10 involving an Optare bus
An Optare bus and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the A38 in Mansfield at 08:10 on Thursday 22 July 2010. The 50-year-old male driver of the Ford Mondeo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jul 2010
- Thursday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Optare and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.14327, longitude -1.20132, in the NG18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Mansfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central, Mansfield, NG18 1NH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mansfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20103102A2039
- Council area
- Mansfield
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 6009
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 December 2008.
Slight
Optare Excel crash on the A38 in Mansfield, 22 December 2008
At the same spotRef 20083102A3596
Serious
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A38 in Mansfield, 5 December 2009
At the same spotRef 20093104A3300
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Mansfield, 22 November 2005
At the same spotRef 20053102A3318
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A6009 in Mansfield, 13 September 2005
At the same spotRef 20053102A2431
Slight
Optare Solo crash on the A38 in Mansfield, 2 January 2008
At the same spotRef 20083102A0018
Slight
Dennis crash on the A38 in Mansfield, 14 March 2006
At the same spotRef 20063102A1611
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Optare
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,374 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
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 20103102A2039 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mansfield road accident statistics for 2010.