A40 crash in Westminster on 21 September 1997 at 16:00 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on the A40 in Westminster at 16:00 on Sunday 21 September 1997. A 72-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 21 Sep 1997
- Sunday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51447, longitude -0.14853, in the W1U 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
- 199701DM00546
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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 18 November 1989.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Westminster, 18 November 1989
At the same spotRef 198901DM00603
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A40 in Westminster, 2 February 1984
At the same spotRef 198401DM00037
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A40 in Westminster, 11 November 2012
At the same spotRef 201201CW11605
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 30 August 1993
At the same spotRef 199301DM00311
Serious
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 23 July 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010049907
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A40 in Westminster, 24 April 2001
At the same spotRef 200101DM00794
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 72, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 199701DM00546 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.