Serious unclassified road crash in Ashfield NG17 on 4 December 2025 at 18:18 involving a BMW i4
A BMW i4 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Ashfield at 18:18 on Thursday 4 December 2025. A 41-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Dec 2025
- Thursday, 18:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW i4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.12711, longitude -1.22554, in the NG17 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sutton Junction & Harlow Wood, Ashfield, NG17 5LA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ashfield
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025311678358
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 617
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a fatal crash on 2 March 1984.
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in Ashfield, 2 March 1984
12 m awayRef 198431AC10743
Slight
Peugeot Expert crash on an unclassified road in Ashfield, 7 September 2015
15 m awayRef 201531A198515
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Ashfield, 27 July 2023
19 m awayRef 2023311338722
Fatal
Renault Clio crash on the A617 in Ashfield, 26 March 2012
23 m awayRef 201231A044212
Slight
Nissan X-Trail crash on the A617 in Ashfield, 15 November 2025
26 m awayRef 2025311669110
Serious
Seat Arosa crash on the A617 in Ashfield, 8 November 2016
28 m awayRef 201631A240916
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW i4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Electric
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 41, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW i4)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
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 2025311678358 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 2025.