C road crash in Cornwall TR18 on 23 August 1990 at 12:05 involving a Bristol (BLMC) bus
A Bristol (BLMC) bus hit a pedestrian on a C road in Cornwall at 12:05 on Thursday 23 August 1990. A 21-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 23 Aug 1990
- Thursday, 12:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bristol (BLMC)
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.1212, longitude -5.53376, in the TR18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Penzance.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199050A311298
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bristol (BLMC)
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Bristol (BLMC))
- 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 199050A311298 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cornwall road accident statistics for 1990.