C road crash in Havering RM1 on 16 August 2025 at 12:50 involving an Alexander Dennis bus
An Alexander Dennis bus and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on a C road in Havering at 12:50 on Saturday 16 August 2025. A 2-year-old male passenger in the Alexander Dennis bus 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
- 16 Aug 2025
- Saturday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Alexander Dennis and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57421, longitude 0.20064, in the RM1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hylands & Harrow Lodge, Havering, RM11 1EB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010592295
- Council area
- Havering
- 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
- 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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 November 2023.
Slight
Mini Countryman crash on a C road in Havering, 19 November 2023
5 m awayRef 2023010479068
Serious
Honda C90 crash on a C road in Havering, 28 March 1998
8 m awayRef 199801KD00277
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Havering, 4 July 2005
8 m awayRef 200501KD50407
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Havering, 21 September 1997
8 m awayRef 199701KD00819
Slight
Kawasaki AR50 crash on a C road in Havering, 4 April 1995
8 m awayRef 199501KD00280
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on a C road in Havering, 22 July 2002
8 m awayRef 200201KD00565
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Alexander Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,700 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 2, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Alexander Dennis)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025010592295 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Havering road accident statistics for 2025.