A40 crash in Westminster on 21 May 1998 at 12:40 involving a Leyland Aec bus
A Leyland Aec bus hit a pedestrian on the A40 in Westminster at 12:40 on Thursday 21 May 1998. A 32-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 crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 May 1998
- Thursday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Leyland Aec
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51479, longitude -0.14578, in the W1C 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
- 199801DM00244
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
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 3 September 1998.
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Westminster, 3 September 1998
At the same spotRef 199801DM00506
Serious
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 31 October 1991
At the same spotRef 199101DM00428
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Westminster, 9 November 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010069661
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 30 December 2015
At the same spotRef 201501CW11993
Slight
Leyland Aec crash on the A40 in Westminster, 23 March 1998
At the same spotRef 199801DM00144
Slight
Leyland Aec crash on the A40 in Westminster, 18 February 1998
At the same spotRef 199801DM00098
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Leyland Aec
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
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 32, hit by vehicle 1 (Leyland Aec)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 199801DM00244 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.