Unclassified road crash in Barnet N12 on 12 December 2019 at 17:55 involving an Alexander Dennis bus
An Alexander Dennis bus and a BMW R 1200 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Barnet at 17:55 on Thursday 12 December 2019. The 46-year-old male rider of the BMW R 1200 motorcycle and a 75-year-old male pedestrian hit by the BMW R 1200 motorcycle were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2019
- Thursday, 17:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Alexander Dennis and BMW R 1200
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61244, longitude -0.15956, in the N12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnet. It is one of the crashes that make up the Friern Barnet, Barnet, N11 3DW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019010224648
- Council area
- Barnet
- 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
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1003
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 21 June 2021.
Serious
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Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1003 in Barnet, 2 June 1996
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Vauxhall Nova crash on the A1003 in Barnet, 21 September 1994
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Yamaha XVS 650 crash on the A1003 in Barnet, 21 February 2006
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Slight
Isuzu Trooper crash on the A1003 in Barnet, 19 November 1999
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Alexander Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South 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
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW R 1200
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,170 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 46, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (BMW R 1200)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 75, hit by vehicle 2 (BMW R 1200)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2019010224648 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Barnet road accident statistics for 2019.