Unclassified road crash in Gravesham DA12 on 4 December 2017 at 13:15 involving an Alexander Dennis bus
An Alexander Dennis bus crashed on an unclassified road in Gravesham at 13:15 on Monday 4 December 2017. An 86-year-old male 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
- 4 Dec 2017
- Monday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Alexander Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44228, longitude 0.37028, in the DA12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gravesend. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pelham, Gravesham, DA12 1BU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gravesham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017460248698
- Council area
- Gravesham
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Kent
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
- 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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 April 2014.
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 13 April 2014
10 m awayRef 2014460240703
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 21 July 2012
17 m awayRef 2012460216330
Slight
Bus crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 22 March 2007
19 m awayRef 2007460139336
Slight
Renault 25 crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 18 March 1997
26 m awayRef 199746NK07340
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 1 January 2004
42 m awayRef 200446NK87353
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 21 November 2000
47 m awayRef 200046NK32735
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Alexander Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 86, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Alexander Dennis)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
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 2017460248698 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gravesham road accident statistics for 2017.