Unclassified road crash in Solihull B37 on 10 July 2010 at 17:20 involving a Dennis bus
A Dennis bus crashed on an unclassified road in Solihull at 17:20 on Saturday 10 July 2010. An 83-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Jul 2010
- Saturday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47935, longitude -1.73832, in the B37 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fordbridge, Solihull, B37 5FD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Solihull
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201020L007850
- Council area
- Solihull
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 April 2002.
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 22 April 2002
14 m awayRef 200220L072201
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 21 July 2010
14 m awayRef 201020L007940
Slight
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 24 August 2000
14 m awayRef 200020L082601
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 15 April 2000
14 m awayRef 200020L037501
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 14 July 2025
17 m awayRef 2025201615769
Serious
Alexander Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 2 March 2021
25 m awayRef 2021201027600
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- 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
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 8,268 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 83, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dennis)
- 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 201020L007850 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Solihull road accident statistics for 2010.