C road crash in Havering RM1 on 24 September 1985 at 16:48 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on a C road in Havering at 16:48 on Tuesday 24 September 1985. A 73-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Sep 1985
- Tuesday, 16:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57727, longitude 0.18424, in the RM1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501KD00792
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 30 October 1984.
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Havering, 30 October 1984
At the same spotRef 198401KD00942
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Havering, 18 October 1996
At the same spotRef 199601KD00930
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Havering, 11 July 1988
At the same spotRef 198801KD00640
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Havering, 8 December 1989
At the same spotRef 198901KD01260
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on a C road in Havering, 4 October 2025
3 m awayRef 2025010601695
Serious
Bus crash on a C road in Havering, 27 August 1988
10 m awayRef 198801KD00808
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 73, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- 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 198501KD00792 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Havering road accident statistics for 1985.