Unclassified road crash in Gedling NG5 on 4 April 1996 at 17:20 involving a Scania bus
A Scania bus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Gedling at 17:20 on Thursday 4 April 1996. A 10-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Apr 1996
- Thursday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Scania
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.00974, longitude -1.11661, in the NG5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Arnold.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996317A20162
- Council area
- Gedling
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 March 2000.
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 7 March 2000
32 m awayRef 2000317B20105
Slight
Rover Montego crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 6 December 2002
45 m awayRef 20023104D0798
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 29 September 1987
50 m awayRef 1987317K20571
Serious
Scania crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 29 February 2024
60 m awayRef 2024311416211
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 17 August 1995
92 m awayRef 1995317A20319
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 16 April 1986
92 m awayRef 1986317K40962
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Scania
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Scania)
- 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 1996317A20162 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gedling road accident statistics for 1996.