Unclassified road crash in Mansfield NG18 on 1 October 2008 at 13:30 involving a Dennis bus
A Dennis bus crashed on an unclassified road in Mansfield at 13:30 on Wednesday 1 October 2008. A 75-year-old male passenger was 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
- 1 Oct 2008
- Wednesday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.14497, longitude -1.21295, in the NG18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Mansfield.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20083102A2603
- Council area
- Mansfield
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a fatal crash on 24 September 1981.
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in Mansfield, 24 September 1981
10 m awayRef 1981312111757
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Mansfield, 31 December 1993
22 m awayRef 1993317F82046
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Mansfield, 5 August 2011
45 m awayRef 201131A183411
Serious
Rover Mini crash on an unclassified road in Mansfield, 17 October 2004
90 m awayRef 20043102A3409
Serious
Audi A4 crash on an unclassified road in Mansfield, 7 September 2002
91 m awayRef 20023102A0495
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Mansfield, 28 January 1986
91 m awayRef 1986317F20085
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 75, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dennis)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Boarding
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 20083102A2603 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mansfield road accident statistics for 2008.