Serious A60 crash in Nottingham on 21 October 2016 at 23:21 involving an Audi R8
An Audi R8 crashed on the A60 in Nottingham at 23:21 on Friday 21 October 2016. The 25-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Oct 2016
- Friday, 23:21
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi R8
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.95793, longitude -1.14574, in the NG3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Nottingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle, Nottingham, NG1 3GA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Nottingham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201631C220516
- Council area
- Nottingham
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 60
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 March 2020.
Serious
Seat Leon crash on the A60 in Nottingham, 13 March 2020
2 m awayRef 202031C031120
Fatal
Ford Focus crash on the A60 in Nottingham, 13 December 2023
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Serious
Car crash on the A60 in Nottingham, 2 July 1983
5 m awayRef 1983313100732
Slight
Car crash on the A60 in Nottingham, 13 May 1989
5 m awayRef 1989317N41252
Slight
Car crash on the A60 in Nottingham, 2 May 1997
5 m awayRef 1997317N40870
Slight
Car crash on the A60 in Nottingham, 8 July 1983
5 m awayRef 1983313100754
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi R8
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,163 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi R8)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 201631C220516 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Nottingham road accident statistics for 2016.