Serious B3120 crash in Bristol on 26 April 1990 at 16:25 involving a bus or coach
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Apr 1990
- Thursday, 16:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44095, longitude -2.60078, in the BS3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bristol.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19905290B0638
- Council area
- Bristol
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3120
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 January 2020.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B3120 in Bristol, 11 January 2020
7 m awayRef 2020522000158
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the B3120 in Bristol, 8 March 2025
9 m awayRef 2025522500896
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B3120 in Bristol, 24 May 2025
9 m awayRef 2025522501467
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the B3120 in Bristol, 23 April 2023
9 m awayRef 2023522300979
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B3120 in Bristol, 23 February 2006
10 m awayRef 2006520074276
Serious
Skoda Fabia crash on the B3120 in Bristol, 27 October 2010
10 m awayRef 2010521008739
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
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
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 60, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 19905290B0638 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 1990.