Serious A40 crash in Westminster on 8 January 1997 at 14:30 involving a Leyland Aec bus
A Leyland Aec bus hit a pedestrian on the A40 in Westminster at 14:30 on Wednesday 8 January 1997. A 22-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Jan 1997
- Wednesday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Leyland Aec
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51527, longitude -0.1423, in the W1B 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
- 199701DM00004
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4201
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 22 July 2012.
Slight
Peugeot 107 crash on the A40 in Westminster, 22 July 2012
At the same spotRef 201201CW10985
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 18 January 2004
At the same spotRef 200401DM00074
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on the A40 in Westminster, 1 November 2001
At the same spotRef 200101DM02197
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A40 in Westminster, 24 March 2002
At the same spotRef 200201DM00565
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A40 in Westminster, 14 January 1994
At the same spotRef 199401DM00014
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the A40 in Westminster, 1 November 1997
At the same spotRef 199701DM00634
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
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 22, hit by vehicle 1 (Leyland Aec)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 199701DM00004 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 1997.