Unclassified road crash in Bristol BS14 on 3 July 1987 at 16:00 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on an unclassified road in Bristol at 16:00 on Friday 3 July 1987. A 10-year-old male passenger 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
- 3 Jul 1987
- Friday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40762, longitude -2.57719, in the BS14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bristol.
Map of where the crash happened in Bristol
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198752BR00853
- Council area
- Bristol
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 September 1997.
Slight
Renault 5 crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 17 September 1997
At the same spotRef 1997520079751
Fatal
MG Metro crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 20 December 1990
At the same spotRef 19905290B1804
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 20 April 1993
At the same spotRef 19935293C0473
Serious
Suzuki SX4 crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 15 October 2025
6 m awayRef 2025522600246
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 21 January 1993
10 m awayRef 19935293C0090
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 5 April 2007
10 m awayRef 2007520005196
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 10, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
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 198752BR00853 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.