C road crash in Redbridge IG7 on 20 October 1997 at 18:55 involving a Dennis bus
A Dennis bus crashed on a C road in Redbridge at 18:55 on Monday 20 October 1997. A 45-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Oct 1997
- Monday, 18:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60719, longitude 0.1071, in the IG7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redbridge.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701JB00845
- Council area
- Redbridge
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 November 2022.
Serious
Alexander Dennis crash on a C road in Redbridge, 23 November 2022
5 m awayRef 2022010412324
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Redbridge, 4 March 2025
5 m awayRef 2025010562171
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Redbridge, 12 December 2019
9 m awayRef 2019010224421
Slight
Ford Granada crash on a C road in Redbridge, 27 February 1997
10 m awayRef 199701JB00181
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on an unclassified road in Redbridge, 18 May 2021
19 m awayRef 2021010308218
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on a C road in Redbridge, 4 December 1995
20 m awayRef 199501JB00474
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
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
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 45, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dennis)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Alighting
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 199701JB00845 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Redbridge road accident statistics for 1997.