Unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 19 May 2003 at 15:52 involving a Leyland bus
A Leyland bus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Redditch at 15:52 on Monday 19 May 2003. A 78-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 19 May 2003
- Monday, 15:52
- Vehicles
- 1
- Leyland
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.31616, longitude -1.90623, in the B98 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch. It is one of the crashes that make up the North, Redditch, B98 9LE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200322DF30885
- Council area
- Redditch
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 May 1989.
Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 15 May 1989
10 m awayRef 1989220205019
Serious
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Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 16 July 2015
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Serious
Skoda Citigo crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 4 April 2020
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Slight
Optare crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 29 March 2018
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Leyland
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 78, hit by vehicle 1 (Leyland)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200322DF30885 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 2003.