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A124 crash in Newham on 30 December 1997 at 14:10 involving a Leyland National bus

A Leyland National bus crashed on the A124 in Newham at 14:10 on Tuesday 30 December 1997. A 9-year-old male passenger was slightly 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
Slight
Date
30 Dec 1997
Tuesday, 14:10
Vehicles
1
Leyland National
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52087, longitude 0.01951, in the E13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newham.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199701KO00652
Council area
Newham
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
124
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 20 May 1994.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Leyland National

    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
    33 years
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    15 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 9, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Leyland National)

    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 199701KO00652 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 1997.