Serious A40 crash in Westminster on 24 July 1986 at 14:38 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on the A40 in Westminster at 14:38 on Thursday 24 July 1986. A 60-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Jul 1986
- Thursday, 14:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51463, longitude -0.1468, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198601CD00166
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 406
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 24 June 1986.
Serious
Taxi crash on the A40 in Westminster, 24 June 1986
At the same spotRef 198601CD00133
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 5 December 2005
At the same spotRef 200501CW11781
Serious
Car crash on the A40 in Westminster, 3 September 1992
At the same spotRef 199201DM00319
Slight
Dennis crash on the A40 in Westminster, 21 September 2003
At the same spotRef 200301TA00348
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A40 in Westminster, 1 November 2014
At the same spotRef 201401CW11673
Serious
DAF Trucks crash on the A40 in Westminster, 25 April 2010
At the same spotRef 201001CW10719
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
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 60, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 198601CD00166 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 1986.