Serious unclassified road crash in Rugby CV21 on 26 November 2002 at 15:30 involving a Leyland bus
A Leyland bus crashed on an unclassified road in Rugby at 15:30 on Tuesday 26 November 2002. A 13-year-old female passenger was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Nov 2002
- Tuesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Leyland
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.38961, longitude -1.25085, in the CV21 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newbold and Brownsover, Rugby, CV21 1AQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rugby
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002230297620
- Council area
- Rugby
- Police force
- Warwickshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Warwickshire
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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Leyland
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 13, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Leyland)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing 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 2002230297620 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rugby road accident statistics for 2002.