Serious unclassified road crash in Ashfield NG17 on 7 July 2020 at 20:50 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira crashed on an unclassified road in Ashfield at 20:50 on Tuesday 7 July 2020. There were four casualties: one person was seriously injured and three were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Jul 2020
- Tuesday, 20:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 4
- 1 seriously injured, 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.12187, longitude -1.26584, in the NG17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sutton in Ashfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sutton Central & New Cross, Ashfield, NG17 1BE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 202031A073720
- Council area
- Ashfield
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 July 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on an unclassified road in Ashfield, 15 July 2001
14 m awayRef 20013108A0888
Slight
Ford Kuga crash on an unclassified road in Ashfield, 14 December 2020
20 m awayRef 202031A173720
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Ashfield, 2 February 1984
27 m awayRef 198431AC00411
Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on an unclassified road in Ashfield, 26 July 2010
27 m awayRef 20103102A1749
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Ashfield, 3 January 1990
31 m awayRef 1990317G80012
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Ashfield, 25 June 1989
32 m awayRef 1989317G20430
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
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
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 202031A073720 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ashfield road accident statistics for 2020.