Serious A606 crash in Rushcliffe on 9 March 2013 at 04:29 involving a Metrocab Metrocab taxi
A Metrocab Metrocab taxi crashed on the A606 in Rushcliffe at 04:29 on Saturday 9 March 2013. A 27-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Mar 2013
- Saturday, 04:29
- Vehicles
- 1
- Metrocab Metrocab
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.9057, longitude -1.12008, in the NG12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edwalton.
Map of where the crash happened in Rushcliffe
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201331D048313
- Council area
- Rushcliffe
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 606
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 33 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 April 2021.
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A606 in Rushcliffe, 28 April 2021
33 m awayRef 202131D069421
Fatal
Car crash on the A606 in Rushcliffe, 21 November 1985
64 m awayRef 1985317Y43252
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A606 in Rushcliffe, 14 March 1988
103 m awayRef 1988317Y40689
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A606 in Rushcliffe, 30 October 1998
117 m awayRef 1998317D20993
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A606 in Rushcliffe, 20 October 1998
158 m awayRef 1998317D42210
Slight
Car crash on the A606 in Rushcliffe, 5 July 1981
177 m awayRef 1981315210859
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Metrocab Metrocab
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,446 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 27, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Metrocab Metrocab)
- 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 201331D048313 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 2013.