B6079 crash in Bassetlaw on 23 December 2016 at 16:23 involving a Seat Leon
Five vehicles, including a Seat Leon and a Volkswagen Beetle, were involved in a crash on the B6079 in Bassetlaw at 16:23 on Friday 23 December 2016. The 31-year-old male driver of the Seat Leon, the 44-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Beetle and the 50-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2016
- Friday, 16:23
- Vehicles
- 5
- Seat Leon and 4 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.31056, longitude -1.05114, in the S81 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bassetlaw
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201631B268316
- Council area
- Bassetlaw
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6079
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 January 2015.
Slight
Car crash on the B6079 in Bassetlaw, 20 January 2015
6 m awayRef 201531B006515
Serious
Mini Cooper crash on the B6079 in Bassetlaw, 5 July 2010
22 m awayRef 20103102B1871
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B6079 in Bassetlaw, 20 August 2004
22 m awayRef 20043102B2745
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6079 in Bassetlaw, 9 January 2008
30 m awayRef 20083102B0112
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the B6079 in Bassetlaw, 1 February 2007
30 m awayRef 20073102B0189
Fatal
Rover Metro crash on the B6079 in Bassetlaw, 8 August 1995
149 m awayRef 1995317B81028
Vehicles involved (5)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Beetle
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 3: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- 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
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 4: Skoda Octavia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- 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
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 5: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Beetle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (BMW 3 Series)
- 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 201631B268316 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.