A40 crash in Westminster on 24 December 1994 at 11:50 involving a Leyland Aec bus
A Leyland Aec bus hit a pedestrian on the A40 in Westminster at 11:50 on Saturday 24 December 1994. A 26-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 1994
- Saturday, 11:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Leyland Aec
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51636, longitude -0.13145, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199401DM00538
- 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
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 8 August 1986.
Serious
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 8 August 1986
At the same spotRef 198601CD00177
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A40 in Westminster, 24 May 2002
At the same spotRef 200201DM00876
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A40 in Westminster, 5 November 1992
At the same spotRef 199201DM00397
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A40 in Westminster, 23 October 2015
At the same spotRef 201501CW11618
Slight
Minibus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 23 November 1997
At the same spotRef 199701DM00681
Slight
Leyland National crash on the A40 in Westminster, 19 August 1994
At the same spotRef 199401DM00272
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Leyland Aec
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 26, hit by vehicle 1 (Leyland Aec)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 199401DM00538 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 1994.