Unclassified road crash in Nottingham NG8 on 31 December 2018 at 16:24 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Nottingham at 16:24 on Monday 31 December 2018. The 52-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus and a 14-year-old male passenger in the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2018
- Monday, 16:24
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.96128, longitude -1.19669, in the NG8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Nottingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lenton & Wollaton East, Nottingham, NG8 1PG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Nottingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201831C263118
- Council area
- Nottingham
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual 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
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 November 1993.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Nottingham, 22 November 1993
7 m awayRef 1993317L42787
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Nottingham, 29 October 1996
8 m awayRef 1996317R42530
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on a C road in Nottingham, 22 September 1999
8 m awayRef 1999317B41958
Slight
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Nottingham, 22 March 1994
9 m awayRef 1994317R40626
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on a C road in Nottingham, 23 January 2014
11 m awayRef 201431C006814
Serious
Triumph crash on a C road in Nottingham, 12 May 1995
14 m awayRef 1995317R41001
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 201831C263118 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Nottingham road accident statistics for 2018.