A40 crash in Westminster on 21 July 1983 at 21:59 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A40 in Westminster at 21:59 on Thursday 21 July 1983. A 48-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jul 1983
- Thursday, 21:59
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51463, longitude -0.14694, in the W1C 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
- 1983010DM0270
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 406
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 12 September 1985.
Serious
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 12 September 1985
At the same spotRef 198501CD00279
Serious
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 4 October 1988
At the same spotRef 198801DM00488
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A40 in Westminster, 6 September 2007
At the same spotRef 200701CW10843
Slight
Suzuki GSX 750 crash on the A40 in Westminster, 10 May 2001
At the same spotRef 200101DM00900
Slight
Taxi crash on the A40 in Westminster, 28 June 1999
At the same spotRef 199901DM00365
Slight
Taxi crash on the A40 in Westminster, 16 April 1984
At the same spotRef 198401CD00092
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 48, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Alighting
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 1983010DM0270 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.