Unclassified road crash in Ealing W3 on 27 April 2012 at 12:10 involving an Alexander Dennis bus
An Alexander Dennis bus and a Renault Megane were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Ealing at 12:10 on Friday 27 April 2012. A 65-year-old male passenger in the Alexander Dennis bus and a 60-year-old male passenger in the Alexander Dennis 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
- 27 Apr 2012
- Friday, 12:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Alexander Dennis and Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52647, longitude -0.27821, in the W3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ealing. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Acton, Ealing, NW10 7PL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201XD80733
- Council area
- Ealing
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 40
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 March 2006.
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Yamaha YZF R125 crash on the A40 in Ealing, 27 June 2014
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Citroen Xantia crash on the A40 in Ealing, 24 July 2007
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Volkswagen Golf crash on the A40 in Ealing, 8 August 2009
At the same spotRef 200901XD80658
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Car crash on the A40 in Ealing, 9 July 2010
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Alexander Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 65, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Alexander Dennis)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 60, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Alexander Dennis)
- 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 201201XD80733 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ealing road accident statistics for 2012.