A40 crash in Westminster on 19 June 1985 at 19:02 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A40 in Westminster at 19:02 on Wednesday 19 June 1985. A 40-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jun 1985
- Wednesday, 19:02
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51431, longitude -0.14969, 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
- 198501CD00180
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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 20 March 2001.
Slight
Taxi crash on the A40 in Westminster, 20 March 2001
At the same spotRef 200101DM00570
Slight
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Slight
Leyland Aec crash on the A40 in Westminster, 27 March 1991
At the same spotRef 199101DM00115
Serious
Taxi crash on the A40 in Westminster, 19 June 2012
At the same spotRef 201201CW10795
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A40 in Westminster, 24 January 1999
At the same spotRef 199901DM00140
Slight
Volvo crash on the A40 in Westminster, 19 August 1999
At the same spotRef 199901DM00500
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 40, 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 198501CD00180 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.