Unclassified road crash in Mansfield NG18 on 23 December 2017 at 21:45 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on an unclassified road in Mansfield at 21:45 on Saturday 23 December 2017. A 25-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2017
- Saturday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.13368, longitude -1.20065, in the NG18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Mansfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Oakham, Mansfield, NG18 4AL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mansfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201731A259517
- Council area
- Mansfield
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights unlit
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 71 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 August 1981.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Mansfield, 4 August 1981
71 m awayRef 1981312101427
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Mansfield, 7 March 1989
76 m awayRef 1989317F80384
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Mansfield, 23 July 1994
100 m awayRef 1994317M20475
Slight
Piaggio Zip crash on an unclassified road in Mansfield, 23 September 2004
104 m awayRef 20043102A3146
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Mansfield, 2 September 1991
130 m awayRef 1991317F81382
Fatal
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Mansfield, 1 April 1982
138 m awayRef 1982312110675
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201731A259517 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mansfield road accident statistics for 2017.