Serious A4 crash in Westminster on 8 September 1989 at 18:20 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on the A4 in Westminster at 18:20 on Friday 8 September 1989. A 17-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Sep 1989
- Friday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51019, longitude -0.13358, in the W1D 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
- 198901CV00233
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4
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 slight injury crash on 31 December 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Westminster, 31 December 1988
At the same spotRef 198801CV00341
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A4 in Westminster, 17 August 1993
At the same spotRef 199301CD00266
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Westminster, 21 April 1988
At the same spotRef 198801CV00099
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on the A4 in Westminster, 4 December 2011
At the same spotRef 201101CW12454
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A4 in Westminster, 16 August 2003
At the same spotRef 200301TA00265
Serious
Toyota Prius crash on the A4 in Westminster, 12 December 2025
3 m awayRef 2025010614964
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 17, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing), masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 198901CV00233 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 1989.