C road crash in Bexley DA18 on 2 March 2019 at 14:01 involving a Wrightbus Gemini
A Wrightbus Gemini crashed on a C road in Bexley at 14:01 on Saturday 2 March 2019. A 33-year-old female passenger and a 56-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Mar 2019
- Saturday, 14:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Wrightbus Gemini
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49539, longitude 0.13358, in the DA18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Thamesmead East, Bexley, DA18 4HB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019010166518
- Council area
- Bexley
- 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
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 February 1992.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 18 February 1992
6 m awayRef 199201RA00070
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 24 May 1997
13 m awayRef 199701RA00187
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Bexley, 24 May 2015
13 m awayRef 201501RY10202
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 11 May 1983
13 m awayRef 1983010RW0210
Serious
Volvo 244 crash on a C road in Bexley, 20 November 1995
13 m awayRef 199501RA00463
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 22 September 1983
13 m awayRef 1983010RW0470
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Wrightbus Gemini
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,692 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 33, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Wrightbus Gemini)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 56, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Wrightbus Gemini)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 2019010166518 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 2019.