A4 crash in Westminster on 19 November 1985 at 10:00 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A4 in Westminster at 10:00 on Tuesday 19 November 1985. A 27-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Nov 1985
- Tuesday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50712, longitude -0.13269, in the SW1Y 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
- 198501AD00289
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 309
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 June 1995.
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Carbodies Taxi crash on the A4 in Westminster, 26 June 1995
At the same spotRef 199501CD00220
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MCW Metrocab crash on the A4 in Westminster, 27 September 2001
At the same spotRef 200101DM02392
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Volvo 850 crash on the A4 in Westminster, 20 October 2014
At the same spotRef 201401CW11603
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Alexander Dennis crash on the A4 in Westminster, 25 July 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010050376
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Taxi crash on the A4 in Westminster, 9 January 2015
At the same spotRef 201501CW10453
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London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on the A4 in Westminster, 17 April 2003
At the same spotRef 200301DM00577
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 27, 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 198501AD00289 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 1985.