Serious A205 crash in Richmond upon Thames on 29 September 1992 at 16:50 involving a Dennis bus
A Dennis bus crashed on the A205 in Richmond upon Thames at 16:50 on Tuesday 29 September 1992. An 89-year-old female passenger was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Sep 1992
- Tuesday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4654, longitude -0.24367, in the SW15 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199201TW00559
- Council area
- Richmond upon Thames
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 205
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 306
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 27 August 2002.
Slight
Triumph Sprint ST crash on the A205 in Richmond upon Thames, 27 August 2002
At the same spotRef 200201WW00877
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A306 in Richmond upon Thames, 25 December 1994
At the same spotRef 199401TW00791
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A205 in Richmond upon Thames, 13 November 2025
1 m awayRef 2025010609134
Slight
Car crash on the A205 in Wandsworth, 31 July 1987
10 m awayRef 198701WW00330
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A205 in Wandsworth, 25 February 1990
10 m awayRef 199001TW00131
Slight
Lorry crash on the A205 in Wandsworth, 5 November 1986
10 m awayRef 198601TR00277
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 89, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dennis)
- 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 199201TW00559 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Richmond upon Thames road accident statistics for 1992.