Unclassified road crash in Havering RM14 on 6 October 2008 at 13:53 involving a DAF Trucks bus
A DAF Trucks bus and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Havering at 13:53 on Monday 6 October 2008. The 35-year-old male driver of the DAF Trucks bus and an 86-year-old female passenger in the DAF Trucks bus were 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
- 6 Oct 2008
- Monday, 13:53
- Vehicles
- 2
- DAF Trucks and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57, longitude 0.27526, in the RM14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cranham, Havering, RM14 1ND area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801KD75613
- Council area
- Havering
- 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
- 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
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, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 May 1995.
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 4 May 1995
41 m awayRef 199501KD00369
Slight
Volvo crash on the A13 in Thurrock, 14 December 1990
45 m awayRef 19904200F1173
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 1 April 1991
132 m awayRef 199101KD00273
Serious
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 24 February 2009
141 m awayRef 200901KD50063
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 7 December 2014
141 m awayRef 201401KD59005
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 27 April 1999
158 m awayRef 199901KD00338
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: DAF Trucks
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,850 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (DAF Trucks)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 86, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (DAF Trucks)
- 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 200801KD75613 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Havering road accident statistics for 2008.