C road crash in Merton SW16 on 20 July 2020 at 15:12 involving an Alexander Dennis bus
An Alexander Dennis bus crashed on a C road in Merton at 15:12 on Monday 20 July 2020. A male passenger aged under 1 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
- 20 Jul 2020
- Monday, 15:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Alexander Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40873, longitude -0.13416, in the SW16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merton.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020010257572
- Council area
- Merton
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Zebra crossing
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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 September 2002.
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Fatal
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Merton, 22 July 1982
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Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on a C road in Merton, 20 December 2025
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Slight
Aprilia RS 125 crash on a C road in Merton, 15 September 2010
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Alexander Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged under 1, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Alexander Dennis)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
- 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 2020010257572 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Merton road accident statistics for 2020.