Unclassified road crash in Adur BN42 on 31 October 1994 at 09:35 involving a Bristol (BLMC) bus
A Bristol (BLMC) bus crashed on an unclassified road in Adur at 09:35 on Monday 31 October 1994. A 50-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 1994
- Monday, 09:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bristol (BLMC)
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84626, longitude -0.2335, in the BN42 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwick.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199447XA40533
- Council area
- Adur
- Police force
- Sussex
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 October 1993.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 13 October 1993
20 m awayRef 199347XA30461
Slight
Leyland Freighter crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 8 July 1992
28 m awayRef 199247XA20325
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 4 May 1987
50 m awayRef 198747XA70239
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 11 April 1986
61 m awayRef 198647MA60087
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 4 October 1981
64 m awayRef 198147XA10708
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 1 October 1988
64 m awayRef 198847XA80669
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bristol (BLMC)
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 50, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bristol (BLMC))
- Bus or coach passenger
- Boarding
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 199447XA40533 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Adur road accident statistics for 1994.