A617 crash in Mansfield on 18 December 2015 at 16:30 involving a Volkswagen Polo
Two Volkswagen Polos were involved in a crash on the A617 in Mansfield at 16:30 on Friday 18 December 2015. A 25-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2015
- Friday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.17097, longitude -1.24109, in the NG19 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ault Hucknall, Bolsover, NG19 7BF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mansfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201531A291315
- Council area
- Mansfield
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 617
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 March 2006.
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A617 in Mansfield, 21 March 2006
11 m awayRef 20063102A1531
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A617 in Mansfield, 11 February 1984
12 m awayRef 198431AB10548
Slight
MAN crash on the A617 in Mansfield, 30 June 2016
21 m awayRef 201631A139016
Slight
Car crash on the A617 in Mansfield, 18 October 1982
21 m awayRef 1982312112004
Serious
Car crash on the A617 in Mansfield, 1 September 1989
21 m awayRef 1989317F81507
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A617 in Mansfield, 8 October 2023
30 m awayRef 2023311360909
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- 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 201531A291315 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mansfield road accident statistics for 2015.