Serious unclassified road crash in Rushcliffe NG12 on 21 February 2018 at 12:00 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Rushcliffe at 12:00 on Wednesday 21 February 2018. An 85-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Feb 2018
- Wednesday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.87424, longitude -1.08316, in the NG12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Keyworth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Keyworth & Wolds, Rushcliffe, NG12 5FD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rushcliffe
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201831D030818
- Council area
- Rushcliffe
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 October 2022.
Serious
Ford Transit Custom crash on an unclassified road in Rushcliffe, 10 October 2022
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rushcliffe, 17 December 1992
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Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Rushcliffe, 21 April 1993
14 m awayRef 1993317Y40921
Slight
Kia Pride crash on an unclassified road in Rushcliffe, 6 December 1994
14 m awayRef 1994317W42755
Slight
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Rushcliffe, 28 September 2006
14 m awayRef 20063102D2713
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rushcliffe, 5 December 1988
23 m awayRef 1988317Y43434
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 85, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- 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 201831D030818 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 2018.