A60 crash in Gedling on 2 December 2012 at 14:42 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat and a Renault Megane were involved in a crash on the A60 in Gedling at 14:42 on Sunday 2 December 2012. A 65-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Passat and a 52-year-old female passenger in the Renault Megane were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Dec 2012
- Sunday, 14:42
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Passat and Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.08473, longitude -1.17069, in the NG15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ravenshead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newstead Abbey, Gedling, NG15 9HG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201231D286712
- Council area
- Gedling
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 60
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 November 2019.
Slight
Tesla Model X crash on the A60 in Gedling, 11 November 2019
4 m awayRef 201931D212919
Slight
Car crash on the A60 in Newark and Sherwood, 22 June 1979
6 m awayRef 1979312110979
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A60 in Gedling, 24 January 2017
6 m awayRef 201731D009017
Slight
Car crash on the A60 in Newark and Sherwood, 31 May 1979
6 m awayRef 1979312110856
Serious
Car crash on the A60 in Newark and Sherwood, 23 May 1979
6 m awayRef 1979312110809
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A60 in Gedling, 23 October 2018
7 m awayRef 201831D249018
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Megane)
- 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 201231D286712 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 2012.