Unclassified road crash in Portsmouth PO6 on 13 July 1989 at 16:07 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on an unclassified road in Portsmouth at 16:07 on Thursday 13 July 1989. A 43-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jul 1989
- Thursday, 16:07
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84992, longitude -1.09508, in the PO6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portsmouth.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989440CC0356
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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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
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 11,100 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 43, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Boarding
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 1989440CC0356 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Portsmouth road accident statistics for 1989.