A605 crash in Peterborough on 10 May 1979 at 14:30 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach and a lorry were involved in a crash on the A605 in Peterborough at 14:30 on Thursday 10 May 1979. The 22-year-old male driver of the bus or coach was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 May 1979
- Thursday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bus or coach and lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.5625, longitude -0.25771, in the PE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peterborough.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979355045379
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 605
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 December 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A605 in Peterborough, 12 December 1980
At the same spotRef 1980351318980
Slight
Car crash on the A605 in Peterborough, 9 October 1996
At the same spotRef 1996350473996
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A605 in Peterborough, 10 March 1986
At the same spotRef 1986351070686
Slight
Car crash on the A605 in Peterborough, 14 December 1989
At the same spotRef 1989351417189
Serious
Car crash on the A605 in Peterborough, 19 July 1984
At the same spotRef 1984351182484
Slight
Car crash on the A605 in Peterborough, 15 January 1988
At the same spotRef 1988351011888
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
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 1979355045379 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Peterborough road accident statistics for 1979.