M1 crash in Broxtowe on 26 November 2020 at 11:11 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a DAF Trucks lorry were involved in a crash on the M1 in Broxtowe at 11:11 on Thursday 26 November 2020. A 30-year-old male passenger in the BMW 3 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Nov 2020
- Thursday, 11:11
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and DAF Trucks
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.02345, longitude -1.24578, in the NG15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Broxtowe
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 202031P171920
- Council area
- Broxtowe
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 1
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 November 1985.
Slight
Lorry crash on the M1 in Broxtowe, 12 November 1985
14 m awayRef 1985317J43130
Slight
Kia Magentis crash on the M1 in Broxtowe, 2 January 2009
24 m awayRef 20093104P0018
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the M1 in Broxtowe, 12 September 2025
30 m awayRef 2025311640817
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the M1 in Broxtowe, 6 July 1998
36 m awayRef 1998317P40178
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the M1 in Broxtowe, 12 January 2015
38 m awayRef 201531P014715
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the M1 in Broxtowe, 27 February 2013
44 m awayRef 201331P038613
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: DAF Trucks
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,902 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 202031P171920 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Broxtowe road accident statistics for 2020.