A315 crash in Westminster on 11 March 1985 at 08:30 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A315 in Westminster at 08:30 on Monday 11 March 1985. A 24-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
- 11 Mar 1985
- Monday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50172, longitude -0.18421, in the SW7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kensington and Chelsea.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501BD00082
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 315
- 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
- 325
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 30 April 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A315 in Westminster, 30 April 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010BD0143
Serious
Car crash on the A315 in Westminster, 27 March 1985
At the same spotRef 198501BD00108
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A315 in Westminster, 28 January 2000
At the same spotRef 200001BS00062
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A315 in Westminster, 23 May 1985
At the same spotRef 198501BD00175
Slight
Honda Insight crash on the A315 in Westminster, 20 May 2014
At the same spotRef 201401BS70328
Slight
Honda XL125V crash on the A315 in Westminster, 4 January 2014
At the same spotRef 201401BS70015
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
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 24, 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 198501BD00082 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.