Unclassified road crash in Hartlepool TS26 on 30 November 2008 at 16:55 involving a Transbus Int
A Transbus Int and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Hartlepool at 16:55 on Sunday 30 November 2008. An 84-year-old male passenger in the Transbus Int was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Nov 2008
- Sunday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Transbus Int and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.67887, longitude -1.22343, in the TS26 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hartlepool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Burn Valley, Hartlepool, TS25 1SJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008170H11458
- Council area
- Hartlepool
- Police force
- Cleveland
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 December 2003.
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Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Hartlepool, 27 December 2003
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Hartlepool, 30 July 1984
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Serious
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Hartlepool, 9 November 2010
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Serious
Austin Metro crash on a C road in Hartlepool, 17 December 1990
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Slight
Mazda 323 crash on a C road in Hartlepool, 31 August 2011
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Transbus Int
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 84, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Transbus Int)
- 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 2008170H11458 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hartlepool road accident statistics for 2008.