C road crash in Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 on 24 April 1997 at 12:15 involving a Mercedes bus
A Mercedes bus crashed on a C road in Newcastle upon Tyne at 12:15 on Thursday 24 April 1997. A 60-year-old male passenger 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
- 24 Apr 1997
- Thursday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.98161, longitude -1.64747, in the NE4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newcastle upon Tyne.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199710F032497
- Council area
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,972 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 60, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes)
- 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 199710F032497 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newcastle upon Tyne road accident statistics for 1997.