Unclassified road crash in Greenwich SE18 on 25 April 2003 at 19:05 involving a Volvo bus
A Volvo bus crashed on an unclassified road in Greenwich at 19:05 on Friday 25 April 2003. A 37-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Apr 2003
- Friday, 19:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47746, longitude 0.05117, in the SE18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shooters Hill, Greenwich, SE18 4JN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301RG00283
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 April 2017.
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 20 April 2017
20 m awayRef 2017010035410
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Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 9 March 2003
22 m awayRef 200301RG00155
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 12 December 1996
28 m awayRef 199601RA00528
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Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 20 July 2005
36 m awayRef 200501RG40520
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Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 6 August 2007
51 m awayRef 200701RG66379
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 31 October 2001
51 m awayRef 200101RG01052
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
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
- 9,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 37, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo)
- 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 200301RG00283 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 2003.