A38 crash in Mansfield on 15 December 2018 at 20:25 involving a Toyota Aygo
A Toyota Aygo and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the A38 in Mansfield at 20:25 on Saturday 15 December 2018. The 65-year-old female driver of the Toyota Aygo was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2018
- Saturday, 20:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Aygo and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.13651, longitude -1.21782, in the NG19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Mansfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Grange Farm, Mansfield, NG18 5ED area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mansfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201831A251218
- Council area
- Mansfield
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 March 2013.
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A38 in Mansfield, 5 March 2013
2 m awayRef 201331A029013
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A38 in Mansfield, 7 June 2011
3 m awayRef 201131A170711
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A38 in Mansfield, 9 February 2013
4 m awayRef 201331A038713
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A38 in Mansfield, 13 November 2020
4 m awayRef 202031A158020
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A38 in Mansfield, 6 December 2022
4 m awayRef 2022311250368
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A38 in Mansfield, 10 May 1979
5 m awayRef 1979312110748
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Aygo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Aygo)
- 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 201831A251218 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 2018.