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Unclassified road crash in Derby DE21 on 2 December 1979 at 17:05 involving a bus or coach

A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Derby at 17:05 on Sunday 2 December 1979. A 13-year-old male pedestrian and a 15-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Slight
Date
2 Dec 1979
Sunday, 17:05
Vehicles
1
Bus or coach
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.92827, longitude -1.45848, in the DE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Derby.

Map of where the crash happened in Derby

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979309D03344
Council area
Derby
Police force
Derbyshire

Road and location details

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

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
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 with high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 September 1983.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Bus or coach

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    34 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 15, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)

    Bus or coach passenger
    Seated 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 1979309D03344 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Derby road accident statistics for 1979.