A313 crash in Richmond upon Thames on 26 March 2012 at 12:30 involving a Scania bus
A Scania bus crashed on the A313 in Richmond upon Thames at 12:30 on Monday 26 March 2012. A 73-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Mar 2012
- Monday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Scania
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42596, longitude -0.3365, in the TW11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Richmond upon Thames. It is one of the crashes that make up the Teddington, Richmond upon Thames, TW11 8HT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Richmond upon Thames
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201TW60122
- Council area
- Richmond upon Thames
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 313
- 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
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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 April 1989.
Slight
Bus crash on the A313 in Richmond upon Thames, 25 April 1989
At the same spotRef 198901TW00257
Slight
Car crash on the A313 in Richmond upon Thames, 4 September 1989
At the same spotRef 198901TW00607
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A313 in Richmond upon Thames, 14 March 2012
At the same spotRef 201201TA00206
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A313 in Richmond upon Thames, 9 July 1999
10 m awayRef 199901TW00311
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A313 in Richmond upon Thames, 12 November 1995
10 m awayRef 199501TW00749
Slight
Scania crash on the A313 in Richmond upon Thames, 22 November 2015
10 m awayRef 201501TW60394
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Scania
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 73, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Scania)
- 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 201201TW60122 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Richmond upon Thames road accident statistics for 2012.