A4201 crash in Westminster on 6 January 1987 at 19:45 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A4201 in Westminster at 19:45 on Tuesday 6 January 1987. A 65-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jan 1987
- Tuesday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51209, longitude -0.13984, in the W1B 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
- 198701CD00004
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4201
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 2 August 2002.
Slight
Bus crash on the A4201 in Westminster, 2 August 2002
At the same spotRef 200201DM01516
Slight
Dennis crash on the A4201 in Westminster, 17 May 2001
At the same spotRef 200101DM00986
Serious
Bus crash on the A4201 in Westminster, 19 February 1987
At the same spotRef 198701CD00023
Serious
Lorry crash on the A4201 in Westminster, 23 October 1989
At the same spotRef 198901CD00193
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A4201 in Westminster, 22 November 1989
At the same spotRef 198901CD00213
Slight
Taxi crash on the A4201 in Westminster, 1 December 1986
At the same spotRef 198601CD00275
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 65, 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 198701CD00004 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 1987.