Unclassified road crash in Lancaster LA3 on 15 August 2006 at 13:20 involving a Rover 100 Series
A Rover 100 Series and a MAN bus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster at 13:20 on Tuesday 15 August 2006. The 60-year-old female driver of the Rover 100 Series and a 22-year-old female passenger in the MAN bus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Aug 2006
- Tuesday, 13:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 100 Series and MAN
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.04064, longitude -2.89665, in the LA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Heysham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Heysham South, Lancaster, LA3 2TN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200604BB06141
- Council area
- Lancaster
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
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, 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%
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 100 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,120 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: MAN
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,871 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 100 Series)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (MAN)
- 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 200604BB06141 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lancaster road accident statistics for 2006.