A617 crash in Ashfield on 23 December 2011 at 12:05 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira and a Mitsubishi Carisma were involved in a crash on the A617 in Ashfield at 12:05 on Friday 23 December 2011. The 39-year-old female driver of the Mitsubishi Carisma and a 10-year-old female passenger in the Mitsubishi Carisma were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2011
- Friday, 12:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and Mitsubishi Carisma
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.128, longitude -1.23565, in the NG17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sutton in Ashfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sutton Junction & Harlow Wood, Ashfield, NG17 5LA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ashfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201131A318411
- Council area
- Ashfield
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 617
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 38
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 31 January 2016.
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A617 in Ashfield, 31 January 2016
4 m awayRef 201631A074716
Slight
Skoda Kamiq crash on the A617 in Ashfield, 24 January 2025
6 m awayRef 2025311545971
Serious
Audi A4 crash on the A38 in Ashfield, 22 September 2019
7 m awayRef 201931A178719
Slight
Optare Excel crash on the A617 in Ashfield, 21 October 2011
8 m awayRef 201131A245811
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A38 in Ashfield, 2 May 2011
8 m awayRef 201131A083711
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A38 in Ashfield, 26 January 2014
8 m awayRef 201431A013714
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Mitsubishi Carisma
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mitsubishi Carisma)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 10, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mitsubishi Carisma)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 201131A318411 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ashfield road accident statistics for 2011.