Serious C road crash in Havering RM1 on 23 December 2015 at 12:25 involving a Scania bus
A Scania bus and a Jaguar S Type were involved in a crash on a C road in Havering at 12:25 on Wednesday 23 December 2015. The 77-year-old male driver of the Jaguar S Type was seriously injured and a 60-year-old female passenger in the Scania bus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Dec 2015
- Wednesday, 12:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Scania and Jaguar S Type
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57998, longitude 0.18393, in the RM1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Edward's, Havering, RM1 1RX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501KD50702
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Dual 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
- A
- Second road number
- 118
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 May 2016.
Slight
Dennis crash on a C road in Havering, 18 May 2016
At the same spotRef 201601KD50259
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on a C road in Havering, 12 December 2000
10 m awayRef 200001KD09012
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A118 in Havering, 11 February 1995
10 m awayRef 199501KD00104
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A118 in Havering, 3 January 2013
10 m awayRef 201301KD50033
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A118 in Havering, 19 September 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010KD0872
Slight
BMW X3 crash on the A118 in Havering, 14 August 2015
14 m awayRef 201501KD50444
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Scania
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Jaguar S Type
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 77 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,967 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 77, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Jaguar S Type)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 60, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Scania)
- 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 201501KD50702 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Havering road accident statistics for 2015.