A4 crash in Westminster on 29 September 1983 at 09:00 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A4 in Westminster at 09:00 on Thursday 29 September 1983. A female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Sep 1983
- Thursday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50748, longitude -0.1272, in the WC2N postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010AD0226
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 September 1987.
Slight
Bus crash on the A4 in Westminster, 17 September 1987
At the same spotRef 198701AD00198
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4 in Westminster, 24 February 1986
At the same spotRef 198601AD00029
Serious
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A4 in Westminster, 3 December 2009
At the same spotRef 200901TA00158
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A4 in Westminster, 8 April 2009
At the same spotRef 200901CW10625
Serious
Citroen Dispatch crash on the A4 in Westminster, 15 August 2025
5 m awayRef 2025010592166
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A4 in Westminster, 7 February 2020
6 m awayRef 2020010235196
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
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 1983010AD0226 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 1983.