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A6200 crash in Nottingham on 15 October 1996 at 11:00 involving an Optare Metrorider bus

An Optare Metrorider bus crashed on the A6200 in Nottingham at 11:00 on Tuesday 15 October 1996. A female passenger 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
15 Oct 1996
Tuesday, 11:00
Vehicles
1
Optare Metrorider
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.9518, longitude -1.17301, in the NG7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Nottingham.

Map of where the crash happened in Nottingham

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1996317N20486
Council area
Nottingham
Police force
Nottinghamshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
6200
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
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 serious injury crash on 27 August 2002.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Optare Metrorider

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    27 years
    Engine capacity
    5,900 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    2 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Optare Metrorider)

    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 1996317N20486 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Nottingham road accident statistics for 1996.