A40 crash in Westminster on 12 December 1998 at 21:55 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A40 in Westminster at 21:55 on Saturday 12 December 1998. A female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 1998
- Saturday, 21:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51353, longitude -0.15708, 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
- 199801DM00718
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 July 2011.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A40 in Westminster, 8 July 2011
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Leyland Aec crash on the A40 in Westminster, 2 January 1998
At the same spotRef 199801DM00006
Slight
Taxi crash on the A40 in Westminster, 31 July 1984
At the same spotRef 198401DM00308
Slight
Hyundai ix35 crash on the A40 in Westminster, 6 November 2016
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Volkswagen Golf crash on the A40 in Westminster, 8 September 2005
At the same spotRef 200501CW11242
Serious
Volvo crash on the A40 in Westminster, 9 July 2000
At the same spotRef 200001DM01379
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Boarding
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 199801DM00718 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.