A5 crash in Westminster on 2 May 1985 at 10:50 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A5 in Westminster at 10:50 on Thursday 2 May 1985. A 79-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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 May 1985
- Thursday, 10:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52583, longitude -0.17864, in the W9 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
- 198501DR00097
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 413
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 serious injury crash on 8 October 2009.
Serious
Yamaha Ybr 125 crash on the A5 in Westminster, 8 October 2009
At the same spotRef 200901CW12225
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the A5 in Westminster, 11 April 1994
At the same spotRef 199401DR00067
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A5 in Westminster, 24 July 1992
At the same spotRef 199201DD00334
Slight
Volvo crash on the A5 in Westminster, 6 December 2025
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Slight
Bicycle crash on the A5 in Westminster, 23 June 2023
9 m awayRef 2023010451053
Slight
Car crash on the B413 in Westminster, 14 December 2014
10 m awayRef 201401CW11909
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 79, 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 198501DR00097 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.