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Unclassified road crash in Gedling NG5 on 21 December 1979 at 16:45 involving a bus or coach

A bus or coach and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Gedling at 16:45 on Friday 21 December 1979. A 38-year-old female passenger in the bus or coach was slightly injured.

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

Severity
Slight
Date
21 Dec 1979
Friday, 16:45
Vehicles
2
Bus or coach and car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.00257, longitude -1.14462, in the NG5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Nottingham.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979314113341
Council area
Gedling
Police force
Nottinghamshire

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
Snowing, no high winds
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 September 2006.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Bus or coach

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    36 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Parked
    Travelling from
    Parked
    Travelling to
    Parked
    Lane or location
    Not on carriageway
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    42 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 38, 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 1979314113341 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gedling road accident statistics for 1979.