Unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 29 September 1998 at 11:51 involving a Leyland bus
A Leyland bus crashed on an unclassified road in Redditch at 11:51 on Tuesday 29 September 1998. A 47-year-old female 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
- 29 Sep 1998
- Tuesday, 11:51
- Vehicles
- 1
- Leyland
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.31592, longitude -1.90754, in the B98 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199822BE02742
- Council area
- Redditch
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 1 October 1989.
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 1 October 1989
At the same spotRef 1989220210066
Slight
Leyland National crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 25 June 1992
At the same spotRef 1992220306024
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 10 February 2001
14 m awayRef 200122BB18533
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 15 September 1987
20 m awayRef 1987220209018
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 2 June 1983
41 m awayRef 1983220206003
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 16 May 1998
45 m awayRef 199822BW01331
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Leyland
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
- 36 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 47, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Leyland)
- 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 199822BE02742 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Redditch road accident statistics for 1998.