Unclassified road crash in Knowsley L35 on 29 October 2018 at 09:42 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on an unclassified road in Knowsley at 09:42 on Monday 29 October 2018. A 72-year-old female passenger and an 80-year-old male passenger were 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
- 29 Oct 2018
- Monday, 09:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.41854, longitude -2.79088, in the L35 postcode district and within the built-up area of Prescot. It is one of the crashes that make up the Prescot South, Knowsley, L35 5BB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Knowsley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018051840166
- Council area
- Knowsley
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
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
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 July 1994.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 11 July 1994
6 m awayRef 199405E376432
Slight
Volvo 245 crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 21 February 1993
6 m awayRef 199305E300256
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 2 November 1991
6 m awayRef 199105E301702
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 11 November 1979
6 m awayRef 197905K100935
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 14 December 1984
6 m awayRef 198405E301576
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 27 June 1992
6 m awayRef 199205E300968
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 72, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 80, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
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 2018051840166 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Knowsley road accident statistics for 2018.