Unclassified road crash in West Lindsey DN21 on 23 January 1987 at 16:40 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in West Lindsey at 16:40 on Friday 23 January 1987. A 15-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jan 1987
- Friday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.40855, longitude -0.76778, in the DN21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gainsborough.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198732E006287
- Council area
- West Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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 13 March 1996.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey, 13 March 1996
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Slight
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey, 22 May 1987
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey, 12 January 1981
51 m awayRef 198132D006281
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey, 13 June 1997
51 m awayRef 199732E002337
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey, 23 May 1984
61 m awayRef 198432D081484
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 198732E006287 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Lindsey road accident statistics for 1987.