A404 crash in Westminster on 14 November 1985 at 11:55 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A404 in Westminster at 11:55 on Thursday 14 November 1985. A 67-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
- 14 Nov 1985
- Thursday, 11:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51993, longitude -0.17541, in the W2 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
- 198501DR00263
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 404
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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 25 August 1995.
Slight
Volvo 740 crash on the A40(M) in Westminster, 25 August 1995
At the same spotRef 199501DP00327
Serious
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A40 in Westminster, 14 March 2003
At the same spotRef 200301DM00364
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A40 in Westminster, 16 August 2001
At the same spotRef 200101DM01651
Slight
Volkswagen Sharan crash on the A40 in Westminster, 1 April 2014
At the same spotRef 201401CW10408
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A40 in Westminster, 22 November 2014
At the same spotRef 201401CW11788
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A40 in Westminster, 31 December 2014
10 m awayRef 201401CW11983
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
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 67, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing 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 198501DR00263 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.