A3020 crash on the Isle of Wight on 25 June 2008 at 17:05 involving a Leyland bus
A Leyland bus crashed on the A3020 on the Isle of Wight at 17:05 on Wednesday 25 June 2008. A 17-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jun 2008
- Wednesday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Leyland
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.64058, longitude -1.25963, in the PO38 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central Rural, Isle of Wight, PO38 3HW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened on the Isle of Wight
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008440280601
- Council area
- Isle of Wight
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3020
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 March 2003.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A3020 on the Isle of Wight, 23 March 2003
At the same spotRef 2003440ZD0244
Serious
Claas crash on the A3020 on the Isle of Wight, 31 May 2021
4 m awayRef 2021440211935
Slight
Citroen C1 crash on the A3020 on the Isle of Wight, 3 November 2008
10 m awayRef 2008440489978
Slight
Peugeot Speedfight crash on the A3020 on the Isle of Wight, 14 September 2003
10 m awayRef 2003440ZD0876
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A3020 on the Isle of Wight, 12 February 2012
11 m awayRef 2012440060095
Slight
Volvo crash on the A3020 on the Isle of Wight, 10 September 2010
14 m awayRef 2010440386790
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Leyland
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Leyland)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing 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 2008440280601 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Isle of Wight road accident statistics for 2008.