B585 crash in Hinckley and Bosworth on 29 January 2008 at 14:51 involving an Optare bus
An Optare bus and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the B585 in Hinckley and Bosworth at 14:51 on Tuesday 29 January 2008. A 62-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jan 2008
- Tuesday, 14:51
- Vehicles
- 2
- Optare and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.66497, longitude -1.37376, in the CV13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Hinckley and Bosworth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008330800657
- Council area
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 585
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 582
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 April 2003.
Slight
Nissan 100 crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 29 April 2003
At the same spotRef 2003330303328
Slight
Car crash on the B585 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 9 March 2006
At the same spotRef 2006330601775
Serious
Mercedes crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 23 August 2024
At the same spotRef 2024332400758
Slight
Yamaha crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 13 February 1998
At the same spotRef 1998339801179
Slight
Taxi crash on the B582 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 2 November 2007
At the same spotRef 2007330707668
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B582 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 15 June 2013
7 m awayRef 2013331301272
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Optare
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,250 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat 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 2008330800657 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hinckley and Bosworth road accident statistics for 2008.