B686 crash in Nottingham on 26 March 2012 at 09:43 involving a Peugeot Boxer van
A Peugeot Boxer van and a Ford Fiesta van were involved in a crash on the B686 in Nottingham at 09:43 on Monday 26 March 2012. The 42-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta van was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Mar 2012
- Monday, 09:43
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot Boxer and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.9608, longitude -1.12219, in the NG3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Nottingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dales, Nottingham, NG3 7AE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Nottingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201231C056612
- Council area
- Nottingham
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 686
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 October 2018.
Slight
Audi TT crash on the B686 in Nottingham, 6 October 2018
2 m awayRef 201831C199518
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B686 in Nottingham, 11 December 2014
3 m awayRef 201431C312114
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on the B686 in Nottingham, 26 April 2024
3 m awayRef 2024311436290
Serious
Ford Transit Custom crash on the B686 in Nottingham, 2 November 2025
4 m awayRef 2025311662485
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the B686 in Nottingham, 17 May 1995
4 m awayRef 1995317C41044
Slight
Car crash on the A612 in Nottingham, 2 February 1987
4 m awayRef 1987317X40253
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Boxer
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 201231C056612 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Nottingham road accident statistics for 2012.