Unclassified road crash in Bexley DA8 on 21 February 2018 at 12:18 involving a Wrightbus Gemini
A Wrightbus Gemini crashed on an unclassified road in Bexley at 12:18 on Wednesday 21 February 2018. A 77-year-old female passenger was 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
- 21 Feb 2018
- Wednesday, 12:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Wrightbus Gemini
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47824, longitude 0.18543, in the DA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Slade Green & Northend, Bexley, DA8 2PQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010091612
- Council area
- Bexley
- 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
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- 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 17 August 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 17 August 2001
10 m awayRef 200101RY00504
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 18 October 1996
14 m awayRef 199601RY00680
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 29 July 2017
14 m awayRef 2017010066728
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 26 February 1998
14 m awayRef 199801RY00139
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 12 November 1997
14 m awayRef 199701RY00701
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 30 April 1983
20 m awayRef 1983010RY0302
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Wrightbus Gemini
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,692 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 77, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Wrightbus Gemini)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018010091612 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bexley road accident statistics for 2018.