A620 crash in Bassetlaw on 8 August 2016 at 16:00 involving a Volkswagen Touareg
A Volkswagen Touareg and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A620 in Bassetlaw at 16:00 on Monday 8 August 2016. The 45-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Touareg and an 8-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra were 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
- 8 Aug 2016
- Monday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Touareg and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.32175, longitude -0.95335, in the DN22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Retford. It is one of the crashes that make up the East Retford West, Bassetlaw, DN22 6BU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bassetlaw
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201631B191716
- Council area
- Bassetlaw
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 620
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 May 2017.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A620 in Bassetlaw, 27 May 2017
4 m awayRef 201731B109617
Slight
Scooter crash on the A620 in Bassetlaw, 13 September 1988
5 m awayRef 1988317E20831
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A620 in Bassetlaw, 22 May 1995
5 m awayRef 1995317B80663
Serious
Car crash on the A620 in Bassetlaw, 10 May 1986
5 m awayRef 1986317E80748
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A620 in Bassetlaw, 13 November 2024
7 m awayRef 2024311517611
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on the A620 in Bassetlaw, 24 May 2022
14 m awayRef 2022311180762
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Touareg
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,460 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- 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
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Touareg)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 8, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 201631B191716 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bassetlaw road accident statistics for 2016.