Unclassified road crash in Sefton L30 on 12 August 1982 at 13:45 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on an unclassified road in Sefton at 13:45 on Thursday 12 August 1982. A 50-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Aug 1982
- Thursday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.48048, longitude -2.96675, in the L30 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bootle.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198205B201533
- Council area
- Sefton
- Police force
- Merseyside
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 January 1982.
Slight
Bus crash on the A561 in Sefton, 8 January 1982
10 m awayRef 198205B100049
Slight
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31 m awayRef 2018051840081
Slight
Kia Niro crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 3 November 2025
33 m awayRef 2025052502199
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 17 February 2015
37 m awayRef 2015051500530
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 26 December 2010
45 m awayRef 201005BB07428
Serious
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 12 June 1993
51 m awayRef 199305B205730
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 50, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing 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 198205B201533 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sefton road accident statistics for 1982.