Serious A453 crash in Nottingham on 31 May 2018 at 11:58 involving a Ford Transit Custom van
A Ford Transit Custom van hit a pedestrian on the A453 in Nottingham at 11:58 on Thursday 31 May 2018. A 71-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 May 2018
- Thursday, 11:58
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit Custom
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.94436, longitude -1.15511, in the NG2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Nottingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Meadows, Nottingham, NG2 1PH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Nottingham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201831C091418
- Council area
- Nottingham
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 453
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 27 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 May 2005.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A453 in Nottingham, 7 May 2005
27 m awayRef 20053102C1228
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A453 in Nottingham, 3 September 1998
33 m awayRef 1998317D41834
Slight
Car crash on the A453 in Nottingham, 15 July 1988
38 m awayRef 1988317Y41860
Slight
BMW X5 crash on the A453 in Nottingham, 6 July 2023
48 m awayRef 2023311326973
Slight
Car crash on the A453 in Nottingham, 17 July 1990
52 m awayRef 1990317Y22045
Serious
Subaru Impreza crash on the A453 in Nottingham, 29 October 2013
54 m awayRef 201331C223613
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Custom
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 71, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Transit Custom)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 201831C091418 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 2018.