C road crash in Norwich NR2 on 17 December 2015 at 10:08 involving a Dennis bus
A Dennis bus crashed on a C road in Norwich at 10:08 on Thursday 17 December 2015. A 63-year-old female passenger and a 70-year-old female passenger were 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
- 17 Dec 2015
- Thursday, 10:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Dennis
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.62677, longitude 1.29247, in the NR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Norwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mancroft, Norwich, NR2 1TW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015360096367
- Council area
- Norwich
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 January 1989.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Norwich, 23 January 1989
3 m awayRef 1989360010156
Slight
Dennis crash on a C road in Norwich, 18 March 2000
3 m awayRef 200036T000105
Slight
Dennis crash on a C road in Norwich, 8 February 2002
3 m awayRef 200236T020023
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Norwich, 21 August 2000
3 m awayRef 200036N001369
Serious
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Norwich, 15 May 2018
8 m awayRef 2018360295343
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Norwich, 5 June 1989
9 m awayRef 1989360011273
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North 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
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 8,268 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 63, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dennis)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 70, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 2015360096367 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Norwich road accident statistics for 2015.