Unclassified road crash in Bristol BS7 on 9 August 2005 at 14:30 involving a Dennis bus
A Dennis bus crashed on an unclassified road in Bristol at 14:30 on Tuesday 9 August 2005. A 58-year-old 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
- 9 Aug 2005
- Tuesday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47928, longitude -2.58734, in the BS7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bristol. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bishopston and Ashley Down, Bristol, BS7 9PB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bristol
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005520104451
- Council area
- Bristol
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- 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
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 April 2009.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
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
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 58, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dennis)
- 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 2005520104451 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bristol road accident statistics for 2005.