B2137 crash in Brighton and Hove on 19 July 2005 at 17:00 involving a Scania bus
A Scania bus crashed on the B2137 in Brighton and Hove at 17:00 on Tuesday 19 July 2005. A female passenger 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 Jul 2005
- Tuesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Scania
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81687, longitude -0.1071, in the BN2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brighton and Hove. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitehawk & Marina, Brighton and Hove, BN2 5JN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Brighton and Hove
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005470506367
- Council area
- Brighton and Hove
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2137
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 2019.
Slight
Car crash on the B2137 in Brighton and Hove, 25 November 2019
9 m awayRef 2019470902513
Slight
Bus crash on the B2137 in Brighton and Hove, 17 July 2005
10 m awayRef 2005470506043
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the B2137 in Brighton and Hove, 19 August 2024
10 m awayRef 2024471482346
Serious
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the B2137 in Brighton and Hove, 5 March 2021
12 m awayRef 2021471026081
Slight
Car crash on the B2137 in Brighton and Hove, 6 October 2011
14 m awayRef 2011471106293
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B2137 in Brighton and Hove, 15 April 2012
20 m awayRef 2012471201961
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Scania
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Scania)
- 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 2005470506367 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Brighton and Hove road accident statistics for 2005.