A4201 crash in Westminster on 29 December 1979 at 17:10 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on the A4201 in Westminster at 17:10 on Saturday 29 December 1979. A 75-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 1979
- Saturday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197901LTRCC17
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4201
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 75, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 197901LTRCC17 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.