Serious B263 crash in Greenwich on 1 August 2023 at 16:30 involving a BYD Enviro bus
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Aug 2023
- Tuesday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- BYD Enviro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43026, longitude 0.06405, in the SE9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023010458409
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 263
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 April 2022.
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the B263 in Greenwich, 25 April 2022
12 m awayRef 2022010372878
Slight
Car crash on the B263 in Greenwich, 20 December 1983
20 m awayRef 1983010RD0804
Fatal
Car crash on the B263 in Greenwich, 13 September 1989
31 m awayRef 198901RG00610
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B263 in Greenwich, 22 August 1992
40 m awayRef 199201RG00491
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B263 in Greenwich, 23 March 2009
60 m awayRef 200901RG40211
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B263 in Greenwich, 14 April 2007
70 m awayRef 200701RG40229
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BYD Enviro
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Electric
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 41, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (BYD Enviro)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2023010458409 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Greenwich road accident statistics for 2023.