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C road crash in Colchester CO1 on 4 April 2011 at 10:30 involving a bus or coach

A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on a C road in Colchester at 10:30 on Monday 4 April 2011. A 70-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Slight
Date
4 Apr 2011
Monday, 10:30
Vehicles
1
Bus or coach
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.88891, longitude 0.8961, in the CO1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Colchester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle, Colchester, CO1 1JQ area accident hotspot.

Map of where the crash happened in Colchester

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
201142I105704
Council area
Colchester
Police force
Essex
Police attended the scene
No
Highway authority
Essex

Road and location details

First road class
C
Road type
One way street
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Pedestrian phase at traffic signal

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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 January 1995.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Bus or coach

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Position at junction
    Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
    First point of impact
    Back
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Journey purpose
    Journey as part of work
    Driver sex
    Female

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 70, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)

    Pedestrian location
    On footway or verge

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 201142I105704 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Colchester road accident statistics for 2011.