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Serious unclassified road crash in Birmingham B17 on 15 December 2003 at 17:00 involving a DAF Trucks bus

A DAF Trucks bus crashed on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 17:00 on Monday 15 December 2003. A 54-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
15 Dec 2003
Monday, 17:00
Vehicles
1
DAF Trucks
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44907, longitude -1.96671, in the B17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bartley Green, Birmingham, B32 3XJ area accident hotspot.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
200320F340002
Council area
Birmingham
Police force
West Midlands
Police attended the scene
No

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
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Other
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 January 2013.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: DAF Trucks

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Waiting to go ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Lane or location
    Lay-by or hard shoulder
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    35 years
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    13 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Serious

    Male, aged 54, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (DAF Trucks)

    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 200320F340002 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Birmingham road accident statistics for 2003.