C road crash in Havering RM3 on 16 October 1985 at 18:55 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Havering at 18:55 on Wednesday 16 October 1985. A 70-year-old male passenger in the bus or coach was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Oct 1985
- Wednesday, 18:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bus or coach and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60814, longitude 0.22153, in the RM3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501KD00866
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 May 2018.
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Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Havering, 13 June 1998
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 70, 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 198501KD00866 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.