Unclassified road crash in Ashfield NG15 on 24 December 2016 at 16:00 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Piaggio Vespa motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Ashfield at 16:00 on Saturday 24 December 2016. The 24-year-old male rider of the Piaggio Vespa motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2016
- Saturday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Piaggio Vespa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.02777, longitude -1.22436, in the NG15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hucknall. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hucknall West, Ashfield, NG15 6HG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ashfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201631A265416
- Council area
- Ashfield
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 1990.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Ashfield, 11 October 1990
13 m awayRef 1990317J42893
Slight
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in Ashfield, 4 June 1995
13 m awayRef 1995317H41188
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Ashfield, 13 June 2006
13 m awayRef 20063102A1938
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Ashfield, 27 July 1979
13 m awayRef 1979314111823
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Ashfield, 30 January 2001
13 m awayRef 20013104B0245
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Ashfield, 27 March 1988
23 m awayRef 1988317J20203
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Piaggio Vespa
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 278 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 24, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Piaggio Vespa)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
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 201631A265416 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ashfield road accident statistics for 2016.