Unclassified road crash in Nottingham NG1 on 18 January 2013 at 03:30 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Volkswagen Passat taxi were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Nottingham at 03:30 on Friday 18 January 2013. The 46-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Passat taxi was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jan 2013
- Friday, 03:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.95349, longitude -1.14455, in the NG1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Nottingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle, Nottingham, NG1 3GA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Nottingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201331C070513
- Council area
- Nottingham
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 February 1982.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Nottingham, 3 February 1982
9 m awayRef 1982313110110
Fatal
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Nottingham, 9 December 1994
9 m awayRef 1994317N42785
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Nottingham, 17 December 2003
9 m awayRef 20033102C8979
Slight
Bedford crash on an unclassified road in Nottingham, 12 May 1993
9 m awayRef 1993317N20224
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Nottingham, 27 April 2007
9 m awayRef 20073102C1772
Slight
Minibus crash on an unclassified road in Nottingham, 13 September 2001
9 m awayRef 20013102C0455
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
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 201331C070513 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Nottingham road accident statistics for 2013.