Serious unclassified road crash in Rushcliffe NG12 on 7 November 2025 at 15:09 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class and a Volkswagen Tiguan were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Rushcliffe at 15:09 on Friday 7 November 2025. The 97-year-old male driver of the Mercedes E Class was seriously injured and a 76-year-old female passenger in the Mercedes E Class and the 84-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Tiguan were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Nov 2025
- Friday, 15:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes E Class and Volkswagen Tiguan
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.84861, longitude -1.06252, in the NG12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rushcliffe
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025311665161
- Council area
- Rushcliffe
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 December 2006.
Slight
Jaguar XJ Series crash on a C road in Rushcliffe, 20 December 2006
32 m awayRef 20063102D3803
Serious
Nissan Primera crash on a C road in Rushcliffe, 21 April 2001
43 m awayRef 20013104D0870
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Rushcliffe, 10 November 1989
102 m awayRef 1989317Y20907
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rushcliffe, 31 July 1981
103 m awayRef 1981315300961
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rushcliffe, 13 June 1979
103 m awayRef 1979315201007
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on a C road in Rushcliffe, 10 April 1998
193 m awayRef 1998317D40782
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 97 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Tiguan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 84 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 97, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes E Class)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 76, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes E Class)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 84, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Tiguan)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025311665161 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 2025.