C road crash in Bexley DA15 on 17 May 2004 at 10:10 involving a Volvo bus
A Volvo bus crashed on a C road in Bexley at 10:10 on Monday 17 May 2004. A 40-year-old female passenger and a 30-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 May 2004
- Monday, 10:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45056, longitude 0.10293, in the DA15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Blendon & Penhill, Bexley, DA15 9NU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401RY10066
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 210
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 December 2008.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Bexley, 12 December 2008
At the same spotRef 200801RY10541
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Datsun Cherry crash on the A210 in Bexley, 24 April 1990
At the same spotRef 199001RY00286
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Bus crash on the A210 in Bexley, 11 October 2003
At the same spotRef 200301RY00441
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Leyland crash on the A210 in Bexley, 30 May 1992
At the same spotRef 199201RY00352
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9 m awayRef 2019010163519
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 40, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 30, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo)
- 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 200401RY10066 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bexley road accident statistics for 2004.