A46 crash in Newark and Sherwood on 17 January 2017 at 23:42 involving a Ford Transit Custom van
A Ford Transit Custom van and a Mercedes lorry were involved in a crash on the A46 in Newark and Sherwood at 23:42 on Tuesday 17 January 2017. The 18-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit Custom van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jan 2017
- Tuesday, 23:42
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit Custom and Mercedes
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.045, longitude -0.862, in the NG23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Newark and Sherwood
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201731B015817
- Council area
- Newark and Sherwood
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 46
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Dry
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, 117 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 June 2024.
Slight
Vauxhall Crossland crash on the A46 in Newark and Sherwood, 24 June 2024
117 m awayRef 2024311459523
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A46 in Newark and Sherwood, 7 November 2025
123 m awayRef 2025311665116
Serious
Hyundai Ioniq crash on the A46 in Newark and Sherwood, 9 December 2022
204 m awayRef 2022311251694
Slight
Car crash on the A46 in Newark and Sherwood, 1 September 2019
218 m awayRef 201931B157619
Slight
Citroen Relay crash on the A46 in Newark and Sherwood, 10 May 2016
312 m awayRef 201631B105116
Serious
Vauxhall Mokka crash on the A46 in Newark and Sherwood, 12 September 2025
317 m awayRef 2025311640947
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Custom
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- 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
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 11,967 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit Custom)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 201731B015817 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newark and Sherwood road accident statistics for 2017.