A21 crash in Lewisham on 12 July 2012 at 11:36 involving a Volvo bus
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jul 2012
- Thursday, 11:36
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46108, longitude -0.01046, in the SE13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lewisham Central, Lewisham, SE13 7NZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201PL60448
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 21
- 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
- 21
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 February 2014.
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 4 February 2014
At the same spotRef 201401PL60094
Serious
Wrightbus NB4L crash on an unclassified road in Lewisham, 10 July 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010047532
Serious
Saab crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 24 June 1993
At the same spotRef 199301PL00356
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 29 October 1998
At the same spotRef 199801PL00615
Slight
Leyland crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 15 December 1994
At the same spotRef 199401PL00716
Slight
Dennis crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 18 May 2005
At the same spotRef 200501PL60487
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 7,300 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 71, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo)
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201201PL60448 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lewisham road accident statistics for 2012.