Unclassified road crash in Ashfield NG17 on 5 December 2017 at 18:07 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on an unclassified road in Ashfield at 18:07 on Tuesday 5 December 2017. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 2017
- Tuesday, 18:07
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.15209, longitude -1.25595, in the NG17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ashfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201731A255517
- Council area
- Ashfield
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 73 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 September 2019.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Ashfield, 7 September 2019
73 m awayRef 201931A156619
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Ashfield, 8 October 1982
78 m awayRef 1982312211945
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Ashfield, 5 April 1988
79 m awayRef 1988317G20184
Slight
Peugeot Speedfight crash on a C road in Ashfield, 27 November 2003
79 m awayRef 20033102A7870
Slight
Ford Ka+ crash on an unclassified road in Ashfield, 22 June 2021
100 m awayRef 202131A089721
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Ashfield, 14 April 1987
119 m awayRef 1987317F80526
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 201731A255517 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.