A404 crash in Westminster on 26 August 2002 at 16:30 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A404 in Westminster at 16:30 on Monday 26 August 2002. A 30-year-old male passenger 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
- 26 Aug 2002
- Monday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52, longitude -0.17178, in the W2 postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Little Venice, Westminster, W2 1LH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201DM01477
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 404
- 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 20 February 2017.
Slight
Volvo crash on the A40 in Westminster, 20 February 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010019720
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A404 in Westminster, 1 February 2005
At the same spotRef 200501CW10187
Slight
Car crash on the A404 in Westminster, 8 October 1984
At the same spotRef 198401DD00500
Slight
Kia Niro crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 25 September 2025
7 m awayRef 2025010599858
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A404 in Westminster, 8 August 2009
10 m awayRef 200901CW11583
Slight
Saab 9-3 crash on the A404 in Westminster, 31 March 2007
10 m awayRef 200701CW10427
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 30, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Alighting
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 200201DM01477 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 2002.