A38 crash in Bristol on 17 November 1987 at 11:25 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach and two cars were involved in a crash on the A38 in Bristol at 11:25 on Tuesday 17 November 1987. An 80-year-old female passenger in the bus or coach and the 30-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Nov 1987
- Tuesday, 11:25
- Vehicles
- 3
- Bus or coach and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45898, longitude -2.59108, in the BS1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bristol.
Map of where the crash happened in Bristol
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198752AC01763
- Council area
- Bristol
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4044
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Footbridge or subway
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 July 2006.
Slight
Bus crash on the A38 in Bristol, 25 July 2006
At the same spotRef 2006520089311
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A38 in Bristol, 26 July 1979
At the same spotRef 197952ACE0797
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A4044 in Bristol, 28 June 2018
2 m awayRef 2018521804417
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A38 in Bristol, 15 October 2023
5 m awayRef 2023522400761
Slight
Wrightbus Streetlite crash on the A38 in Bristol, 16 November 2018
6 m awayRef 2018521900788
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A38 in Bristol, 7 January 2020
8 m awayRef 2020522000089
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 80, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 198752AC01763 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bristol road accident statistics for 1987.