B679 crash in Rushcliffe on 12 March 2012 at 20:20 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Peugeot 307 were involved in a crash on the B679 in Rushcliffe at 20:20 on Monday 12 March 2012. A 31-year-old female passenger in the Peugeot 307 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Mar 2012
- Monday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Peugeot 307
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.93161, longitude -1.13943, 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
- 201231D078112
- Council area
- Rushcliffe
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 679
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 October 2017.
Slight
Mercedes R Class crash on the B679 in Rushcliffe, 15 October 2017
4 m awayRef 201731D195717
Slight
Car crash on the B679 in Nottingham, 28 October 1982
4 m awayRef 1982315211502
Serious
Volvo V50 crash on the B679 in Rushcliffe, 27 February 2025
4 m awayRef 2025311563351
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B679 in Rushcliffe, 17 April 2001
4 m awayRef 20013104D0835
Serious
Car crash on the B679 in Rushcliffe, 18 February 1987
4 m awayRef 1987317Y40386
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the B679 in Rushcliffe, 10 December 1992
18 m awayRef 1992317Y42840
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 307)
- 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 201231D078112 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 2012.