A5 crash in Westminster on 18 November 1995 at 14:30 involving a Leyland Aec bus
A Leyland Aec bus crashed on the A5 in Westminster at 14:30 on Saturday 18 November 1995. A 65-year-old male passenger 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
- 18 Nov 1995
- Saturday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Leyland Aec
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51359, longitude -0.16082, 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
- 199501DP00451
- 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
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 October 2015.
Slight
Bus crash on the A5 in Westminster, 16 October 2015
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Slight
Bus crash on the A5 in Westminster, 1 April 1999
At the same spotRef 199901DP00132
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Westminster, 1 April 1989
At the same spotRef 198901DM00145
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A5 in Westminster, 12 August 2015
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Serious
Mercedes A Class crash on the A5 in Westminster, 31 May 2022
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Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the A5 in Westminster, 3 July 2019
7 m awayRef 2019010191331
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Leyland Aec
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 65, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Leyland Aec)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing passenger
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 199501DP00451 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 1995.