A40 crash in Westminster on 31 March 1998 at 13:57 involving an MCW bus
An MCW bus hit a pedestrian on the A40 in Westminster at 13:57 on Tuesday 31 March 1998. A 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
- 31 Mar 1998
- Tuesday, 13:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- MCW
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51417, longitude -0.15186, in the W1K 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
- 199801DM00160
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 1988.
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 17 December 1988
At the same spotRef 198801DM00624
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 4 July 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010DM0243
Serious
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 5 January 2004
At the same spotRef 200401DM00025
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Westminster, 28 January 1987
At the same spotRef 198701DM00031
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Westminster, 27 December 1998
At the same spotRef 199801DM09055
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 26 February 2003
At the same spotRef 200301DM00290
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MCW
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,045 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, hit by vehicle 1 (MCW)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 199801DM00160 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 1998.