A4201 crash in Westminster on 22 August 2003 at 20:45 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A4201 in Westminster at 20:45 on Friday 22 August 2003. A 68-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Aug 2003
- Friday, 20:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5098, longitude -0.13501, in the W1J postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the St James's, Westminster, WC2H 7JD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301DM01280
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4201
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4
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 28 May 2004.
Slight
Dennis crash on the A4201 in Westminster, 28 May 2004
At the same spotRef 200401DM00676
Slight
Dennis crash on the A4 in Westminster, 20 April 2002
At the same spotRef 200201DM00699
Slight
Bus crash on the A4 in Westminster, 1 March 2004
At the same spotRef 200401DM00290
Slight
Car crash on the A4201 in Westminster, 24 December 2003
At the same spotRef 200301DM09001
Slight
London Taxis Int. Txii crash on the A4201 in Westminster, 22 August 2004
At the same spotRef 200401DM01239
Slight
Leyland Aec crash on the A4 in Westminster, 21 March 2003
At the same spotRef 200301DM00436
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 68, 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 200301DM01280 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.