Unclassified road crash in Newham E20 on 13 May 2005 at 14:55 involving a Dennis bus
A Dennis bus and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Newham at 14:55 on Friday 13 May 2005. A 45-year-old female passenger in the Dennis bus 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
- 13 May 2005
- Friday, 14:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Dennis and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54254, longitude -0.01484, in the E20 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stratford Olympic Park, Newham, E20 1FA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Newham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200501HT20321
- Council area
- Newham
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 115
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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 July 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A115 in Newham, 16 July 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010KW0426
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A115 in Newham, 11 September 1998
10 m awayRef 199801KF00410
Slight
Lorry crash on the A115 in Newham, 29 September 2005
10 m awayRef 200501KF60642
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A115 in Newham, 13 April 1996
14 m awayRef 199601KF00177
Slight
Ferrari crash on the A115 in Newham, 2 May 2000
14 m awayRef 200001KF00158
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A115 in Newham, 17 May 1996
14 m awayRef 199601KF00229
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,883 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 45, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dennis)
- 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 200501HT20321 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 2005.