Unclassified road crash in Rushmoor GU14 on 2 November 2010 at 10:30 involving an Optare bus
An Optare bus crashed on an unclassified road in Rushmoor at 10:30 on Tuesday 2 November 2010. An 88-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Nov 2010
- Tuesday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Optare
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30694, longitude -0.76907, in the GU14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Farnborough. It is one of the crashes that make up the West Heath, Rushmoor, GU14 8RX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rushmoor
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010440464656
- Council area
- Rushmoor
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
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
- 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, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 1991.
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Rushmoor, 9 December 1991
28 m awayRef 1991440FR0442
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Rushmoor, 7 December 1998
41 m awayRef 1998440AA1935
Serious
Scooter crash on an unclassified road in Rushmoor, 6 June 1981
50 m awayRef 1981440AF0146
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Hart, 24 June 2001
50 m awayRef 2001440AA0974
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Rushmoor, 24 April 1986
57 m awayRef 1986440FR0170
Slight
Kawasaki crash on an unclassified road in Rushmoor, 25 June 1990
57 m awayRef 1990440FR0253
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Optare
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,250 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 88, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Optare)
- 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 2010440464656 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rushmoor road accident statistics for 2010.