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Serious A11 crash in Newham on 31 December 1985 at 11:10 involving a bus or coach

A bus or coach crashed on the A11 in Newham at 11:10 on Tuesday 31 December 1985. A 55-year-old female passenger was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
31 Dec 1985
Tuesday, 11:10
Vehicles
1
Bus or coach
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54238, longitude 0.00316, in the E15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newham.

Map of where the crash happened in Newham

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198501KW00707
Council area
Newham
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
11
Road type
One way street or slip road
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
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 10 December 1986.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Bus or coach

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Parked
    Travelling from
    Parked
    Travelling to
    Parked
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    34 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Serious

    Female, aged 55, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)

    Bus or coach passenger
    Boarding

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 198501KW00707 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newham road accident statistics for 1985.