Serious unclassified road crash in Greenwich SE28 on 10 December 2012 at 16:00 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Greenwich at 16:00 on Monday 10 December 2012. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Dec 2012
- Monday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50563, longitude 0.1108, in the SE28 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Thamesmead Moorings, Greenwich, SE28 8AT area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201TB01223
- Council area
- Greenwich
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 May 2014.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 27 May 2014
10 m awayRef 201401RG40365
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 29 September 1988
20 m awayRef 198801RW00395
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A2041 in Greenwich, 2 September 1992
22 m awayRef 199201RA00393
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 15 September 2000
22 m awayRef 200001RG00878
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 31 October 1996
28 m awayRef 199601RA00459
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 10 May 1997
32 m awayRef 199701RA00173
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
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 201201TB01223 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Greenwich road accident statistics for 2012.