Unclassified road crash in Solihull B37 on 19 September 1998 at 16:50 involving an MCW bus
An MCW bus crashed on an unclassified road in Solihull at 16:50 on Saturday 19 September 1998. A 57-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Sep 1998
- Saturday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- MCW
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47794, longitude -1.73832, in the B37 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Solihull
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199820L098201
- Council area
- Solihull
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 August 2013.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 30 August 2013
20 m awayRef 201320L005933
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 4 July 2022
24 m awayRef 2022201216145
Slight
Mini One crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 9 March 2021
27 m awayRef 2021201066354
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 1 July 1980
30 m awayRef 19802000L0878
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 22 September 2014
30 m awayRef 201420L006594
Slight
BMW X5 crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 8 April 2018
38 m awayRef 2018200289122
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MCW
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 10,450 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 57, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (MCW)
- 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 199820L098201 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Solihull road accident statistics for 1998.