A38 crash in Ashfield on 30 September 2017 at 09:45 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Peugeot 208 were involved in a crash on the A38 in Ashfield at 09:45 on Saturday 30 September 2017. The 59-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 208 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Sep 2017
- Saturday, 09:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Peugeot 208
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.12084, longitude -1.25068, in the NG17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sutton in Ashfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sutton Junction & Harlow Wood, Ashfield, NG17 5GX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ashfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201731A191117
- Council area
- Ashfield
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 December 2002.
Serious
Fiat Uno crash on the A38 in Ashfield, 12 December 2002
16 m awayRef 20023104A0813
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A38 in Ashfield, 11 April 1993
21 m awayRef 1993317G80475
Serious
Peugeot 308 crash on the A38 in Ashfield, 14 December 2017
22 m awayRef 201731A268717
Slight
Volvo crash on the A38 in Ashfield, 18 February 2015
35 m awayRef 201531A035915
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A38 in Ashfield, 4 April 2019
36 m awayRef 201931A073919
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on the A38 in Ashfield, 17 July 2011
38 m awayRef 201131A157011
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 208
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 208)
- 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 201731A191117 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ashfield road accident statistics for 2017.