Unclassified road crash in Mansfield NG18 on 31 December 2016 at 21:59 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and an Audi A4 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Mansfield at 21:59 on Saturday 31 December 2016. A 20-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2016
- Saturday, 21:59
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.14492, longitude -1.17651, in the NG18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Mansfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Eakring, Mansfield, NG18 2FG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mansfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201631A269116
- Council area
- Mansfield
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 31 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 March 2012.
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on an unclassified road in Mansfield, 23 March 2012
31 m awayRef 201231A072712
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Mansfield, 7 December 1991
38 m awayRef 1991317F21016
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Mansfield, 7 July 1996
43 m awayRef 1996317M80888
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the B6030 in Mansfield, 5 March 1991
54 m awayRef 1991317F20199
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Mansfield, 2 February 2025
59 m awayRef 2025311550382
Serious
Car crash on the B6030 in Mansfield, 28 June 2005
60 m awayRef 20053102A1679
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most 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 201631A269116 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 2016.