A6085 crash in Newcastle upon Tyne on 16 September 2015 at 17:40 involving an Alexander Dennis bus
An Alexander Dennis bus and a car were involved in a crash on the A6085 in Newcastle upon Tyne at 17:40 on Wednesday 16 September 2015. A 17-year-old female passenger in the Alexander Dennis bus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Sep 2015
- Wednesday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Alexander Dennis and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.98175, longitude -1.73955, in the NE15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newburn. It is one of the crashes that make up the Throckley, Walbottle & Newburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE15 8PD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Newcastle upon Tyne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015100575215
- Council area
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6085
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 1988.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A6085 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 17 December 1988
3 m awayRef 198810B422888
Slight
Car crash on the A6085 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 8 December 1982
13 m awayRef 198210B420882
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A6085 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 27 March 2019
16 m awayRef 2019100827015
Slight
Car crash on the A6085 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 1 October 1984
17 m awayRef 198410B414984
Slight
Bedford Astra crash on the A6085 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 22 October 1998
20 m awayRef 199810G093598
Slight
Volkswagen Bora crash on an unclassified road in Newcastle upon Tyne, 26 January 2013
26 m awayRef 2013100045813
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Alexander Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,700 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Alexander Dennis)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated 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 2015100575215 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newcastle upon Tyne road accident statistics for 2015.