A46 crash in Newark and Sherwood on 3 April 2016 at 14:45 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A46 in Newark and Sherwood at 14:45 on Sunday 3 April 2016. The 31-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Apr 2016
- Sunday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.04844, longitude -0.85708, in the NG23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Newark and Sherwood
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201631B065616
- Council area
- Newark and Sherwood
- 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
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 65 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 August 2019.
Slight
Jaguar X Type crash on the A46 in Newark and Sherwood, 6 August 2019
65 m awayRef 201931B146719
Slight
Honda CRV crash on the A46 in Newark and Sherwood, 23 August 2012
85 m awayRef 201231B184812
Serious
Vauxhall Mokka crash on the A46 in Newark and Sherwood, 12 September 2025
191 m awayRef 2025311640947
Slight
Car crash on the A46 in Newark and Sherwood, 1 September 2019
290 m awayRef 201931B157619
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on the A46 in Newark and Sherwood, 13 June 2015
296 m awayRef 201531B111015
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A46 in Newark and Sherwood, 31 May 2019
301 m awayRef 201931B094419
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
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
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 201631B065616 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newark and Sherwood road accident statistics for 2016.