Serious A60 crash in Rushcliffe on 27 December 2017 at 20:00 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on the A60 in Rushcliffe at 20:00 on Wednesday 27 December 2017. The 31-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Dec 2017
- Wednesday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.84958, longitude -1.1403, in the NG11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rushcliffe
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201731D267417
- Council area
- Rushcliffe
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 60
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 January 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A60 in Rushcliffe, 20 January 1979
7 m awayRef 1979315200104
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A60 in Rushcliffe, 15 February 1980
7 m awayRef 1980315310216
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A60 in Rushcliffe, 12 November 2015
11 m awayRef 201531D250815
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A60 in Rushcliffe, 25 May 2003
12 m awayRef 20033102D0706
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in Rushcliffe, 22 November 2018
13 m awayRef 201831D224618
Slight
Car crash on the A60 in Rushcliffe, 20 May 1979
29 m awayRef 1979315200828
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 201731D267417 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rushcliffe road accident statistics for 2017.