B6326 crash in Newark and Sherwood on 16 October 2017 at 16:00 involving a Land Rover Freelander
A Land Rover Freelander and a Volkswagen Passat were involved in a crash on the B6326 in Newark and Sherwood at 16:00 on Monday 16 October 2017. The 61-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Passat was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Oct 2017
- Monday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover Freelander and Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.07434, longitude -0.80972, in the NG24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newark-on-Trent. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle, Newark and Sherwood, NG24 1JU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Newark and Sherwood
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201731B199017
- Council area
- Newark and Sherwood
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6326
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 6166
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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 October 2013.
Slight
DAF Trucks FTG 85CF crash on the B6326 in Newark and Sherwood, 8 October 2013
8 m awayRef 201331B199013
Serious
Car crash on the A6075 in Newark and Sherwood, 8 April 1983
14 m awayRef 1983311310736
Serious
Volkswagen UP crash on the B6326 in Newark and Sherwood, 15 July 2023
14 m awayRef 2023311331128
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A6065 in Newark and Sherwood, 19 April 1983
18 m awayRef 1983311310802
Slight
Car crash on the A46 in Newark and Sherwood, 27 April 1982
18 m awayRef 1982311300759
Slight
Car crash on the A46 in Newark and Sherwood, 1 May 1981
18 m awayRef 1981311300798
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,179 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 201731B199017 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.