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Unclassified road crash in Leeds LS10 on 2 January 1979 at 16:45 involving a bus or coach

A bus or coach crashed on an unclassified road in Leeds at 16:45 on Tuesday 2 January 1979. A 57-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a snow-covered single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
2 Jan 1979
Tuesday, 16:45
Vehicles
1
Bus or coach
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77872, longitude -1.52802, in the LS10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leeds.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
197913F001379
Council area
Leeds
Police force
West Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Snow

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 September 1981.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Bus or coach

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Moving off
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    37 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 57, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)

    Bus or coach passenger
    Boarding

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 197913F001379 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Leeds road accident statistics for 1979.