Serious unclassified road crash in Birmingham on 29 December 1986 at 13:45 involving a bus or coach

A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 13:45 on Monday 29 December 1986. A 17-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

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

Severity: Serious
Date: 29 Dec 1986; Monday, 13:45
Vehicles: 1; Bus or coach
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 19862000F2080
Council area: Birmingham
Police force: West Midlands

Road and location details

First road class: Unclassified
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Other junction
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class: Unclassified

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

Vehicles involved (1)

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

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Male, aged 17, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
Pedestrian location
Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
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 19862000F2080 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.