A46 crash in Rushcliffe on 24 December 2015 at 11:08 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the A46 in Rushcliffe at 11:08 on Thursday 24 December 2015. The 41-year-old male driver and a 19-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2015
- Thursday, 11:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.84835, longitude -1.03324, 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
- 201531D289915
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 June 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A46 in Rushcliffe, 20 June 1987
11 m awayRef 1987317Y41559
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the A46 in Rushcliffe, 5 December 1998
15 m awayRef 1998317D21056
Serious
Scania crash on the A46 in Rushcliffe, 25 August 2000
25 m awayRef 2000317D41771
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the A46 in Rushcliffe, 17 April 1994
27 m awayRef 1994317W20454
Slight
Car crash on the A46 in Rushcliffe, 22 August 1987
34 m awayRef 1987317Y42129
Fatal
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A46 in Rushcliffe, 3 December 2015
38 m awayRef 201531D258715
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 201531D289915 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.