Unclassified road crash in Ashfield NG15 on 2 December 2017 at 15:00 involving an Optare bus
An Optare bus crashed on an unclassified road in Ashfield at 15:00 on Saturday 2 December 2017. A 10-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Dec 2017
- Saturday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Optare
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.03891, longitude -1.20348, in the NG15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hucknall. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hucknall Central, Ashfield, NG15 7JD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ashfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201731A247217
- 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
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 December 1982.
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Ashfield, 15 December 1982
16 m awayRef 1982314102733
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Ashfield, 16 March 2002
25 m awayRef 20023102A0863
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Ashfield, 25 June 1985
25 m awayRef 1985317J20322
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on an unclassified road in Ashfield, 29 December 2007
35 m awayRef 20073102A4393
Serious
Honda NSS300A crash on an unclassified road in Ashfield, 4 November 2019
51 m awayRef 201931A211819
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Ashfield, 10 February 2025
55 m awayRef 2025311553491
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Optare
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,250 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 10, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Optare)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing passenger
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 201731A247217 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 2017.