Unclassified road crash in Gedling NG5 on 26 December 2010 at 16:20 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Ford KA were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Gedling at 16:20 on Sunday 26 December 2010. All five casualties were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 2010
- Sunday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Ford KA
- Casualties
- 5
- 5 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.99013, longitude -1.12966, in the NG5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Arnold. It is one of the crashes that make up the Woodthorpe, Gedling, NG5 4FF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gedling
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20103102D3045
- Council area
- Gedling
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 April 1996.
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 16 April 1996
14 m awayRef 1996317A20174
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 20 April 1997
14 m awayRef 1997317A40763
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 4 September 1981
14 m awayRef 1981314211792
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 12 July 1987
14 m awayRef 1987317K41719
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 20 March 1989
14 m awayRef 1989317K20191
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 20 February 1980
14 m awayRef 1980314210415
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Ford KA
Car
- 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
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford KA)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged under 1, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford KA)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 11, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 5: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford KA)
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 20103102D3045 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gedling road accident statistics for 2010.