B6044 crash in Bassetlaw on 1 August 2007 at 13:10 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van and an Alexander Dennis bus were involved in a crash on the B6044 in Bassetlaw at 13:10 on Wednesday 1 August 2007. A 59-year-old female passenger in the Alexander Dennis bus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Aug 2007
- Wednesday, 13:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes Sprinter and Alexander Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.31614, longitude -0.94756, in the DN22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Retford. It is one of the crashes that make up the East Retford West, Bassetlaw, DN22 6BU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bassetlaw
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20073102B3025
- Council area
- Bassetlaw
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6044
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 31 December 2015.
Serious
Peugeot Tweet 125 crash on the B6044 in Bassetlaw, 31 December 2015
4 m awayRef 201531B291915
Slight
Bus crash on the B6044 in Bassetlaw, 13 July 1987
10 m awayRef 1987317E20560
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on an unclassified road in Bassetlaw, 9 August 2013
49 m awayRef 201331B180213
Slight
Volvo 360 crash on an unclassified road in Bassetlaw, 20 August 2001
51 m awayRef 20013102E0970
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B6044 in Bassetlaw, 28 March 1997
67 m awayRef 1997317B20130
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Bassetlaw, 7 May 1992
78 m awayRef 1992317E80673
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,151 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Alexander Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,700 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 59, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Alexander Dennis)
- 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 20073102B3025 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bassetlaw road accident statistics for 2007.