C road crash in Merton CR4 on 18 December 2014 at 07:15 involving a Dennis bus
A Dennis bus hit a pedestrian on a C road in Merton at 07:15 on Thursday 18 December 2014. A 78-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2014
- Thursday, 07:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40316, longitude -0.13619, in the CR4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Longthornton, Merton, CR4 1ET area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401VW40571
- Council area
- Merton
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 February 1998.
Slight
Ford Courier crash on a C road in Merton, 21 February 1998
At the same spotRef 199801VW00100
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Merton, 21 July 2003
10 m awayRef 200301VW00366
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on a C road in Merton, 2 August 2025
13 m awayRef 2025010590029
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Merton, 5 June 1995
14 m awayRef 199501ZM00325
Serious
Honda NS125R crash on a C road in Merton, 31 May 1990
14 m awayRef 199001VW00427
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Merton, 13 March 1995
14 m awayRef 199501ZM00151
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 78, hit by vehicle 1 (Dennis)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 201401VW40571 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Merton road accident statistics for 2014.