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Unclassified road crash in Flintshire CH7 on 16 April 2003 at 21:50 involving a Dennis bus

A Dennis bus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Flintshire at 21:50 on Wednesday 16 April 2003. A 17-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Slight
Date
16 Apr 2003
Wednesday, 21:50
Vehicles
1
Dennis
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.16819, longitude -3.08106, in the CH7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Buckley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Buckley: Pentrobin, Flintshire, CH7 2HB area accident hotspot.

Map of where the crash happened in Flintshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2003600FL2041
Council area
Flintshire
Police force
North Wales
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

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Auto traffic signal
Second road class
B
Second road number
5127

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 April 1996.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Dennis

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    39 years
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    2 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 17, hit by vehicle 1 (Dennis)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
    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 2003600FL2041 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Flintshire road accident statistics for 2003.