A6520 crash in Rushcliffe on 20 September 2018 at 19:49 involving a BMW 3 Series
A car and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the A6520 in Rushcliffe at 19:49 on Thursday 20 September 2018. A 12-year-old male passenger in the car and a 50-year-old female passenger in the BMW 3 Series were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Sep 2018
- Thursday, 19:49
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.93837, longitude -1.13003, in the NG2 postcode district and within the built-up area of West Bridgford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Trent Bridge, Rushcliffe, NG2 6AB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rushcliffe
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201831D180118
- 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
- 6520
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 December 2016.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A6520 in Rushcliffe, 18 December 2016
2 m awayRef 201631D264816
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A6520 in Rushcliffe, 6 April 2016
3 m awayRef 201631D074016
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A6520 in Rushcliffe, 1 January 2016
4 m awayRef 201631D030716
Serious
Peugeot 308 crash on the A6520 in Rushcliffe, 14 September 2017
5 m awayRef 201731D239517
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A6520 in Rushcliffe, 3 September 2017
5 m awayRef 201731D164217
Slight
Car crash on the A52 in Rushcliffe, 1 October 1979
5 m awayRef 1979315211634
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
- 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 201831D180118 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.