A46 crash in Rushcliffe on 3 October 2015 at 11:20 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A46 in Rushcliffe at 11:20 on Saturday 3 October 2015. The 21-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa and a 23-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Oct 2015
- Saturday, 11:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.81891, longitude -1.03812, in the LE14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rushcliffe
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201531D227615
- 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
- 46
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 June 2016.
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on an unclassified road in Rushcliffe, 23 June 2016
21 m awayRef 201631D129316
Fatal
Car crash on the A46 in Rushcliffe, 30 September 1987
28 m awayRef 1987317Y42529
Fatal
Car crash on the A46 in Rushcliffe, 23 July 1987
28 m awayRef 1987317Y41825
Slight
Triumph Street Triple crash on the A46 in Rushcliffe, 23 August 2015
39 m awayRef 201531D176915
Fatal
Car crash on the A46 in Rushcliffe, 27 August 1981
41 m awayRef 1981315311087
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A46 in Rushcliffe, 22 June 1991
45 m awayRef 1991317Y20516
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside, crossed central reservation
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- 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 201531D227615 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 2015.