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Serious A2 crash in Lewisham on 10 November 1983 at 09:37 involving a bus or coach

A bus or coach crashed on the A2 in Lewisham at 09:37 on Thursday 10 November 1983. A 75-year-old female passenger was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
10 Nov 1983
Thursday, 09:37
Vehicles
1
Bus or coach
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4743, longitude -0.0449, in the SE14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1983010PL0590
Council area
Lewisham
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
2
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

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

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 January 1992.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Bus or coach

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Moving off
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    30 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Serious

    Female, aged 75, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)

    Bus or coach passenger
    Alighting

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 1983010PL0590 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lewisham road accident statistics for 1983.