A4205 crash in Westminster on 22 March 2003 at 20:55 involving a Dennis bus
A Dennis bus hit a pedestrian on the A4205 in Westminster at 20:55 on Saturday 22 March 2003. A 53-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Mar 2003
- Saturday, 20:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51898, longitude -0.16952, 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
- 200301DM00439
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4205
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 March 2004.
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the A4205 in Westminster, 18 March 2004
At the same spotRef 200401DM00324
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on the A4205 in Westminster, 6 October 2000
At the same spotRef 200001DM02093
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A4205 in Westminster, 9 April 2014
At the same spotRef 201401CW10447
Serious
Leyland Aec crash on the A4205 in Westminster, 9 January 1992
10 m awayRef 199201DD00008
Slight
Bus crash on the A4205 in Westminster, 11 January 2012
10 m awayRef 201201CW10059
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A5 in Westminster, 12 September 1993
14 m awayRef 199301DD00349
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 53, hit by vehicle 1 (Dennis)
- 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 200301DM00439 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 2003.