Unclassified road crash in Cornwall TR15 on 15 May 2023 at 11:09 involving an Alexander Dennis bus
An Alexander Dennis bus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 11:09 on Monday 15 May 2023. A 66-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 15 May 2023
- Monday, 11:09
- Vehicles
- 1
- Alexander Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.23154, longitude -5.23663, in the TR15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redruth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Redruth North, Cornwall, TR15 1JB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023501307458
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 March 1995.
Serious
Bedford crash on a C road in Cornwall, 1 March 1995
3 m awayRef 199550A220365
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 10 October 2000
12 m awayRef 200050A223748
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A3047 in Cornwall, 27 May 2000
30 m awayRef 200050A221775
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 26 April 2004
30 m awayRef 200450A22F342
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Cornwall, 13 April 1985
32 m awayRef 198550A220661
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Cornwall, 7 May 1996
33 m awayRef 199650A221176
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Alexander Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,700 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 66, hit by vehicle 1 (Alexander Dennis)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 2023501307458 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cornwall road accident statistics for 2023.