Unclassified road crash in Dudley DY8 on 24 September 2007 at 22:01 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Dudley at 22:01 on Monday 24 September 2007. A male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Sep 2007
- Monday, 22:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.4468, longitude -2.16476, in the DY8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stourbridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Norton, Dudley, DY8 3BN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dudley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200720J070102
- Council area
- Dudley
- Police force
- West Midlands
- 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
- Dark, lighting unknown
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 February 2006.
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 10 February 2006
At the same spotRef 200620J012802
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 30 May 2006
10 m awayRef 200620J041402
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 4 February 2005
10 m awayRef 200520J008702
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 4 July 1996
20 m awayRef 19962096J1066
Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 10 February 2003
20 m awayRef 200320J017702
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 6 May 1996
20 m awayRef 19962096J0728
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 200720J070102 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dudley road accident statistics for 2007.