A216 crash in Wandsworth on 4 March 2025 at 14:50 involving a Volvo bus
A Volvo bus crashed on the A216 in Wandsworth at 14:50 on Tuesday 4 March 2025. An 82-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Mar 2025
- Tuesday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42133, longitude -0.14501, in the SW16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wandsworth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Furzedown, Wandsworth, SW16 6QN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wandsworth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010562126
- Council area
- Wandsworth
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 216
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 April 2021.
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the A216 in Wandsworth, 9 April 2021
3 m awayRef 2021010300823
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A216 in Wandsworth, 18 January 2003
4 m awayRef 200301WW00043
Slight
Car crash on the A216 in Wandsworth, 18 August 1989
4 m awayRef 198901WD00373
Serious
Car crash on the A216 in Wandsworth, 10 January 1984
4 m awayRef 198401WD00022
Slight
Car crash on the A216 in Wandsworth, 11 January 2024
6 m awayRef 2024010488516
Slight
Car crash on the A216 in Wandsworth, 26 March 2005
7 m awayRef 200501WW50111
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,132 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 82, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025010562126 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wandsworth road accident statistics for 2025.