Unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 6 February 1998 at 12:02 involving a Leyland bus
A Leyland bus crashed on an unclassified road in Redditch at 12:02 on Friday 6 February 1998. A 52-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
- 6 Feb 1998
- Friday, 12:02
- Vehicles
- 1
- Leyland
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30315, longitude -1.89627, 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
- 199822BP00290
- 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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 2000.
Slight
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 8 December 2000
20 m awayRef 200022BB17588
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 12 May 1995
22 m awayRef 199522BG03618
Fatal
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 26 March 1997
30 m awayRef 199722BP00888
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 26 November 1990
40 m awayRef 1990220211056
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 10 November 1984
41 m awayRef 1984220211013
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 25 May 1985
58 m awayRef 1985220205038
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Leyland
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 52, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Leyland)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Alighting
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 199822BP00290 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.