A4205 crash in Westminster on 8 January 1987 at 12:55 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A4205 in Westminster at 12:55 on Thursday 8 January 1987. An 83-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jan 1987
- Thursday, 12:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51628, longitude -0.17801, 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
- 198701DD00007
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4205
- 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
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 23 February 1987.
Serious
Taxi crash on the A4205 in Westminster, 23 February 1987
At the same spotRef 198701DD00068
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A4205 in Westminster, 15 January 2025
3 m awayRef 2025010554769
Slight
Mercedes ML Class crash on the A4205 in Westminster, 22 November 2024
10 m awayRef 2024010545033
Slight
Wrightbus Streetdeck crash on the A4205 in Westminster, 23 December 2024
10 m awayRef 2024010550899
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A4205 in Westminster, 1 April 2000
10 m awayRef 200001DM00580
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 19 January 1995
10 m awayRef 199501DP00016
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
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 83, 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 198701DD00007 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.