A5 crash in Westminster on 29 December 1979 at 12:50 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A5 in Westminster at 12:50 on Saturday 29 December 1979. A female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 1979
- Saturday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197901LTMKC19
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Boarding
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 197901LTMKC19 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Westminster road accident statistics for 1979.