Serious unclassified road crash in Maldon CM9 on 6 November 2015 at 12:20 involving an Alexander Dennis bus
An Alexander Dennis bus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Maldon at 12:20 on Friday 6 November 2015. A 73-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Nov 2015
- Friday, 12:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Alexander Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.74518, longitude 0.69188, in the CM9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maldon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Maldon North, Maldon, CM9 4ND area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Maldon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015420031638
- Council area
- Maldon
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 July 2022.
Slight
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Slight
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Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 10 August 2014
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Slight
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67 m awayRef 19904200C1025
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 10 November 1984
99 m awayRef 19844200C1292
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Alexander Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 63 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 73, hit by vehicle 1 (Alexander Dennis)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
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 2015420031638 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Maldon road accident statistics for 2015.