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Serious A205 crash in Greenwich on 21 April 1995 at 10:54 involving a Leyland bus

A Leyland bus crashed on the A205 in Greenwich at 10:54 on Friday 21 April 1995. An 84-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 T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
21 Apr 1995
Friday, 10:54
Vehicles
1
Leyland
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46136, longitude 0.04971, in the SE9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich.

Map of where the crash happened in Greenwich

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199501RA00176
Council area
Greenwich
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
205
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

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 18 March 1990.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Leyland

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Moving off
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    54 years
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    11 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Serious

    Female, aged 84, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Leyland)

    Bus or coach passenger
    Seated 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 199501RA00176 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Greenwich road accident statistics for 1995.