B2066 crash in Brighton and Hove on 13 January 2007 at 22:30 involving a Scania bus
A Scania bus crashed on the B2066 in Brighton and Hove at 22:30 on Saturday 13 January 2007. A 60-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jan 2007
- Saturday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Scania
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82401, longitude -0.14856, in the BN1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brighton and Hove. It is one of the crashes that make up the Regency, Brighton and Hove, BN1 3LZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007470700467
- Council area
- Brighton and Hove
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2066
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Pedestrian in carriageway, not injured
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, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 March 2013.
Serious
Scania crash on the B2066 in Brighton and Hove, 25 March 2013
8 m awayRef 2013471301576
Serious
Bus crash on the B2066 in Brighton and Hove, 13 May 2016
9 m awayRef 2016471602821
Serious
Bus crash on the B2066 in Brighton and Hove, 12 April 2013
9 m awayRef 2013471301877
Slight
Bus crash on the B2066 in Brighton and Hove, 15 December 1990
10 m awayRef 199047CA00995
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the B2066 in Brighton and Hove, 5 May 2007
10 m awayRef 2007470704096
Slight
Volvo 740 crash on an unclassified road in Brighton and Hove, 30 January 2002
10 m awayRef 200247C146774
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Scania
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- 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
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 11,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 60, 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 2007470700467 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 2007.