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A638 crash in Doncaster on 29 September 1990 at 13:20 involving a Leyland bus

A Leyland bus crashed on the A638 in Doncaster at 13:20 on Saturday 29 September 1990. A 40-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 50 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
29 Sep 1990
Saturday, 13:20
Vehicles
1
Leyland
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.55727, longitude -1.18118, in the DN6 postcode district.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199014A302417
Council area
Doncaster
Police force
South Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
638
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
50 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
B
Second road number
1220

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp
Special conditions at the site
Roadworks
Carriageway hazards
Roadworks

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 February 2005.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Leyland

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    40 years
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    10 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 40, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Leyland)

    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 199014A302417 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Doncaster road accident statistics for 1990.