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Serious A12 crash in Great Yarmouth on 22 November 1990 at 09:35 involving a Freight Rover Sherpa bus

A Freight Rover Sherpa bus hit a pedestrian on the A12 in Great Yarmouth at 09:35 on Thursday 22 November 1990. A 79-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
22 Nov 1990
Thursday, 09:35
Vehicles
1
Freight Rover Sherpa
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.60967, longitude 1.72851, in the NR30 postcode district and within the built-up area of Great Yarmouth.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1990360022465
Council area
Great Yarmouth
Police force
Norfolk

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
12
Road type
One way street or slip road
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
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
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 19 April 1983.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Freight Rover Sherpa

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    33 years
    Engine capacity
    2,500 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    4 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 79, hit by vehicle 1 (Freight Rover Sherpa)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 1990360022465 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Great Yarmouth road accident statistics for 1990.