Unclassified road crash in South Gloucestershire BS37 on 18 March 2015 at 14:45 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire at 14:45 on Wednesday 18 March 2015. A 64-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
- 18 Mar 2015
- Wednesday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5395, longitude -2.40959, in the BS37 postcode district and within the built-up area of Yate. It is one of the crashes that make up the Yate Central, South Gloucestershire, BS37 4AA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Gloucestershire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015521502014
- Council area
- South Gloucestershire
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- 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
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Auto traffic signal, out
- Carriageway hazards
- Defective traffic signals
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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 April 2019.
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Ford Focus crash on the B4059 in South Gloucestershire, 30 April 2019
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Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 25 July 2002
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Mini Cooper crash on the B4059 in South Gloucestershire, 28 June 2022
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Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 28 August 2002
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Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 23 July 2005
30 m awayRef 2005520094501
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Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4059 in South Gloucestershire, 11 June 2007
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 64, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- 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 2015521502014 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Gloucestershire road accident statistics for 2015.