Serious unclassified road crash in Gedling NG5 on 9 January 2016 at 18:02 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira and a mobility scooter were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Gedling at 18:02 on Saturday 9 January 2016. The 74-year-old male rider of the mobility scooter was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Jan 2016
- Saturday, 18:02
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and mobility scooter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.00868, longitude -1.12642, in the NG5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Arnold. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ernehale, Gedling, NG5 7FU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gedling
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201631D007516
- Council area
- Gedling
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 October 2015.
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 23 October 2015
2 m awayRef 201531D223915
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 8 July 2024
10 m awayRef 2024311465128
Slight
Hyundai Tucson crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 4 October 2017
26 m awayRef 201731D198117
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 25 March 2007
28 m awayRef 20073102D0893
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 15 October 1994
28 m awayRef 1994317A42269
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 18 October 1993
28 m awayRef 1993317K20412
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mobility scooter
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 74, mobility scooter rider, on vehicle 2 (Mobility scooter)
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 201631D007516 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gedling road accident statistics for 2016.