Unclassified road crash in Maldon CM9 on 2 April 2005 at 12:00 involving a Scania bus
A Scania bus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Maldon at 12:00 on Saturday 2 April 2005. A 34-year-old male pedestrian and the 43-year-old male driver were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Apr 2005
- Saturday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Scania
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.7315, longitude 0.67702, in the CM9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maldon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Maldon North, Maldon, CM9 5EW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Maldon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200542C020304
- Council area
- Maldon
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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
- 25%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 75%
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Serious
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Scania
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 34, hit by vehicle 1 (Scania)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Scania)
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 200542C020304 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Maldon road accident statistics for 2005.