Serious A6008 crash in Nottingham on 31 March 2012 at 01:08 involving a Toyota Avensis taxi
A Toyota Avensis taxi hit a pedestrian on the A6008 in Nottingham at 01:08 on Saturday 31 March 2012. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Mar 2012
- Saturday, 01:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Avensis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.95516, longitude -1.14751, in the NG1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Nottingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle, Nottingham, NG1 3GA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Nottingham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201231C070012
- Council area
- Nottingham
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6008
- 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
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 January 2015.
Slight
Taxi crash on the A6008 in Nottingham, 1 January 2015
2 m awayRef 201531C006115
Slight
Scania crash on the A6008 in Nottingham, 19 December 2018
4 m awayRef 201831C253118
Serious
Optare Solo crash on the A6008 in Nottingham, 2 April 2019
4 m awayRef 201931C060919
Serious
Bus crash on the A6008 in Nottingham, 9 June 2025
4 m awayRef 2025311600672
Slight
Volvo crash on the A60 in Nottingham, 10 December 1990
6 m awayRef 1990317N20493
Slight
Audi 100 crash on the A6008 in Nottingham, 6 October 2002
6 m awayRef 20023102C2182
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Avensis)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 201231C070012 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.