A690 crash in Sunderland on 6 August 1992 at 12:00 involving a Daimler bus
A Daimler bus crashed on the A690 in Sunderland at 12:00 on Thursday 6 August 1992. A 45-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Aug 1992
- Thursday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Daimler
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.90525, longitude -1.3827, in the SR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sunderland.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199210F113192
- Council area
- Sunderland
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 690
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 February 1982.
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 4 February 1982
At the same spotRef 198210F100782
Slight
Bus crash on the A690 in Sunderland, 6 March 1992
At the same spotRef 199210F102892
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 15 October 1981
At the same spotRef 198110H073481
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 15 February 1981
At the same spotRef 198110H012181
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A690 in Sunderland, 11 June 1993
At the same spotRef 199310F107093
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 13 November 2019
7 m awayRef 2019100898549
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Daimler
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 45, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Daimler)
- 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 199210F113192 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sunderland road accident statistics for 1992.