A5 crash in Westminster on 12 August 1991 at 10:10 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A5 in Westminster at 10:10 on Monday 12 August 1991. An 81-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
- 12 Aug 1991
- Monday, 10:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51856, longitude -0.16812, 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
- 199101DD00348
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 20 October 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Westminster, 20 October 1989
At the same spotRef 198901DD00558
Serious
Car crash on the A5 in Westminster, 30 July 2005
At the same spotRef 200501CW11037
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A5 in Westminster, 19 February 2008
10 m awayRef 200801CW10169
Slight
Yamaha XC 125 crash on the A5 in Westminster, 25 April 2013
10 m awayRef 201301CW10477
Slight
Volvo crash on the A5 in Westminster, 13 August 2014
10 m awayRef 201401CW11176
Slight
Dennis crash on the A5 in Westminster, 10 September 2008
10 m awayRef 200801CW11576
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 81, 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 199101DD00348 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 1991.