Serious B1464 crash in Basildon on 23 December 1986 at 12:15 involving a bus or coach

A bus or coach crashed on the B1464 in Basildon at 12:15 on Tuesday 23 December 1986. A 76-year-old female passenger was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 23 Dec 1986; Tuesday, 12:15
Vehicles: 1; Bus or coach
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 19864200B1069
Council area: Basildon
Police force: Essex

Road and location details

First road class: B
First road number: 1464
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: Other
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
Manoeuvre
Parked
Travelling from
Parked
Travelling to
Parked
First point of impact
Did not impact
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
57 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Passenger
Serious
Female, aged 76, 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 19864200B1069 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Basildon road accident statistics for 1986.