Serious A125 crash in Havering on 23 April 2018 at 00:20 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit two pedestrians on the A125 in Havering at 00:20 on Monday 23 April 2018. A 30-year-old male pedestrian and a 33-year-old male pedestrian were seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Apr 2018
- Monday, 00:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58191, longitude 0.17669, 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, RM7 7JL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010103351
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 125
- 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
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 21 February 1986.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A125 in Havering, 21 February 1986
At the same spotRef 198601KD00149
Slight
Bus crash on the A125 in Havering, 14 November 2024
7 m awayRef 2024010543484
Slight
Honda CR-V crash on the A125 in Havering, 19 October 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010604701
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A125 in Havering, 13 November 1997
10 m awayRef 199701KD01028
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A125 in Havering, 16 December 2005
10 m awayRef 200501KD50758
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A125 in Havering, 30 September 1996
10 m awayRef 199601KD00877
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,692 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 33, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
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 2018010103351 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 2018.