C road crash in Chesterfield S40 on 15 March 1980 at 12:35 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on a C road in Chesterfield at 12:35 on Saturday 15 March 1980. An 80-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Mar 1980
- Saturday, 12:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.2347, longitude -1.43515, in the S40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chesterfield.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980300C00570
- Council area
- Chesterfield
- Police force
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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 6 February 1992.
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Serious
Vehicle crash on a C road in Chesterfield, 28 March 1980
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Slight
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Vauxhall Mokka crash on the A619 in Chesterfield, 10 April 2025
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 80, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Alighting
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 1980300C00570 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chesterfield road accident statistics for 1980.