Unclassified road crash in Derby DE22 on 30 January 2003 at 15:02 involving a Dennis bus
A Dennis bus and a Nissan Bluebird were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Derby at 15:02 on Thursday 30 January 2003. A 21-year-old female passenger in the Dennis bus and a 1-year-old male passenger in the Dennis bus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jan 2003
- Thursday, 15:02
- Vehicles
- 2
- Dennis and Nissan Bluebird
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.91498, longitude -1.48556, in the DE22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Derby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Abbey, Derby, DE22 3WJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200330D000084
- Council area
- Derby
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 December 2009.
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Bluebird
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dennis)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 1, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dennis)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated 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 200330D000084 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Derby road accident statistics for 2003.