Unclassified road crash in Brighton and Hove BN1 on 6 March 2015 at 10:35 involving a Scania bus
A Scania bus crashed on an unclassified road in Brighton and Hove at 10:35 on Friday 6 March 2015. A 65-year-old female passenger 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
- 6 Mar 2015
- Friday, 10:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Scania
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83075, longitude -0.13606, in the BN1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brighton and Hove. It is one of the crashes that make up the Round Hill, Brighton and Hove, BN2 3GB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Brighton and Hove
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471501320
- Council area
- Brighton and Hove
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 23
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 July 2013.
Slight
Scania crash on the A23 in Brighton and Hove, 6 July 2013
2 m awayRef 2013471303454
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Brighton and Hove, 12 September 2014
3 m awayRef 2014471405341
Slight
Scania crash on an unclassified road in Brighton and Hove, 14 December 2016
4 m awayRef 2016471607562
Slight
Scania crash on the A23 in Brighton and Hove, 10 January 2009
5 m awayRef 2009470900402
Slight
Scania crash on an unclassified road in Brighton and Hove, 7 July 2009
5 m awayRef 2009470904938
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Brighton and Hove, 21 July 2008
5 m awayRef 2008470805585
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Scania
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 65, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Scania)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing 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 2015471501320 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Brighton and Hove road accident statistics for 2015.