A454 crash in Walsall on 29 December 1986 at 14:00 involving a bus or coach

A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on the A454 in Walsall at 14:00 on Monday 29 December 1986. A 15-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 29 Dec 1986; Monday, 14:00
Vehicles: 1; Bus or coach
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 19862000H2916
Council area: Walsall
Police force: West Midlands

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 454
Road type: One way street or slip road
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: 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
West
Travelling to
South East
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
35 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Male, aged 15, 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 19862000H2916 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Walsall road accident statistics for 1986.