A6008 crash in Nottingham on 1 November 2017 at 15:40 involving an Alexander Dennis bus
An Alexander Dennis bus hit a pedestrian on the A6008 in Nottingham at 15:40 on Wednesday 1 November 2017. A male pedestrian 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
- 1 Nov 2017
- Wednesday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Alexander Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.95525, longitude -1.14544, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201731C216817
- Council area
- Nottingham
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 April 2023.
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on the A6008 in Nottingham, 8 April 2023
4 m awayRef 2023311297655
Slight
Skoda Superb crash on the A6008 in Nottingham, 19 April 2015
6 m awayRef 201531C071115
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A6008 in Nottingham, 15 November 2025
7 m awayRef 2025311669154
Serious
Car crash on the A6008 in Nottingham, 8 February 1980
8 m awayRef 1980313110100
Slight
Car crash on the A6008 in Nottingham, 10 May 1981
8 m awayRef 1981313110449
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A6008 in Nottingham, 21 March 1982
8 m awayRef 1982313110309
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Alexander Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,696 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, hit by vehicle 1 (Alexander Dennis)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 201731C216817 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 2017.