A46 crash in Rushcliffe on 18 December 2015 at 19:08 involving a Ford Transit Custom van
A Ford Transit Custom van crashed on the A46 in Rushcliffe at 19:08 on Friday 18 December 2015. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2015
- Friday, 19:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit Custom
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.88728, longitude -1.02521, in the NG12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rushcliffe
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201531D284915
- 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
- 70 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 38 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 May 2009.
Serious
Volvo S40 crash on the A46 in Rushcliffe, 10 May 2009
38 m awayRef 20093102D1099
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A46 in Rushcliffe, 12 December 1991
73 m awayRef 1991317Y43145
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A46 in Rushcliffe, 2 October 1987
103 m awayRef 1987317Y42552
Slight
Car crash on the A46 in Rushcliffe, 6 March 1988
103 m awayRef 1988317Y20207
Slight
Car crash on the A46 in Rushcliffe, 2 May 1984
103 m awayRef 198431DB11198
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A46 in Rushcliffe, 14 December 1986
104 m awayRef 1986317Y43415
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Custom
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit Custom)
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 201531D284915 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.