Serious A457 crash in Birmingham on 29 December 1986 at 15:10 involving a bus or coach

A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on the A457 in Birmingham at 15:10 on Monday 29 December 1986. A 44-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity: Serious
Date: 29 Dec 1986; Monday, 15:10
Vehicles: 1; Bus or coach
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 19862000C2914
Council area: Birmingham
Police force: West Midlands

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 457
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Crossroads
Junction control: Auto traffic signal
Second road class: Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities: No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Road surface: Dry

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
North West
Travelling to
South East
First point of impact
Nearside
Driver sex
Male

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Female, aged 44, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
Pedestrian movement
Crossing from driver's nearside

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 19862000C2914 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Birmingham road accident statistics for 1986.