Serious unclassified road crash in Worcester WR1 on 29 November 2013 at 21:45 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Worcester at 21:45 on Friday 29 November 2013. A 29-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Nov 2013
- Friday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.19353, longitude -2.22234, in the WR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worcester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cathedral, Worcester, WR1 3QT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worcester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201322C304406
- Council area
- Worcester
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
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
- Dark, street lights unlit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 December 2007.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 5 December 2007
At the same spotRef 200722CA87247
Serious
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 26 June 2012
10 m awayRef 201222C202510
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 19 February 2010
10 m awayRef 201022C000968
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 12 July 1986
14 m awayRef 1986220307033
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 30 April 1994
20 m awayRef 199422CA06142
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 28 May 1993
22 m awayRef 1993220405057
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
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 29, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201322C304406 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Worcester road accident statistics for 2013.